Good Order Quotes

… the happiness of the people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality …. These cannot be diffused through a community but by the institution of the public worship of God …and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality.

Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

There is no one who is not convinced of the importance of good order in the state and who does not sincerely wish to see that state well ordered in which he has to live. ;, .d. justice;, .d. order;, .d. managing government;, .d. State;, .d. progress;, There is no one who is not convinced of the importance of good order in the state and who does not sincerely wish to see that state well ordered in which he has to live.

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house.

The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence or defense; for the redress of grievances or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.

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 out into overt acts against peace and good order.

Actions in violation of social duties or subversive of good order.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

The declared right of religious liberty is an affirmative right to profess some religion and to worship God. A man who has no religion, rejects all religion, and denies the existence of God cannot have the right or exercise and enjoy it, because he has no practical use for it. Indecent, vulgar, and vile language concerning any religion is not an exercise of the right of liberty of speech or of the press, but shocks the general sense of fair argument and debate on religion, and is an overt act against peace and good order, punishable as a public nuisance.

It accords with the good order of the realm and the peacefulness of our times that each should have freedom to worship God after his own choice.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Let all things be done decently and in good order.