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Order Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with…
- We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the…
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they…
- A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education…
- The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break…
- Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
- During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its…
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
- And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate…
- In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed…
- Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
- Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
- It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
- To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare…
More Order Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila