Hosea Ballou Quotes

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, And keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.

You need to respect the rules; they are the same for everybody.

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

One with the law is a majority.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.