"Public instruction should be the first object of…" — Napoleon Bonaparte

More First Object Quotes

This quote is filed under First Object Quotes, one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we… — William Barclay
• The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that… — Thomas Jefferson
• No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing… — Thomas Jefferson
• The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. — Thomas Jefferson
• Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game — Wilhelm Steinitz
• The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship,… — Olaudah Equiano
• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle… — James Madison
• To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every… — Robert Owen
• There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity… — Walt Whitman
• In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense,… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
• Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large… — Theodor Herzl
• It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to… — Frederick The Great

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