Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by…

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the…

— Thomas Aquinas

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

— Plato

“To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

— Fred Thompson

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

— Michel de Montaigne

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must…

— James Madison

“Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at…

— Aristotle

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

— Anonymous

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

— John Perry Barlow

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

— Ramana Maharshi

[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

— Anne Hutchinson

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God.

— David A. Bednar