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Quotes About Order

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
~ Joe Mantegna
Good order is the foundation of all things.
~ Edmund Burke
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
~ Francois Fenelon
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
~ Kathryn Stockett
The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.
~ Rumi
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
~ Bertolt Brecht
It is not good to have a rule of many.
~ Homer
I don't cook, I can't cook, and it is really abominable to see me in the kitchen. I order in takeaway food or get my friends to cook because a lot of them are very good.
~ Drew Barrymore
The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.
~ J.R. Ward
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.
~ Gustave de Molinari
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
~ Albert Einstein
Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.
~ Michael Schwab
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
~ James Madison
The safety of the State is the highest law.
~ Justinian
God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.
~ Robert Bellarmine
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.
~ Adolf Hitler
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
~ Daniel Morgan
Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
~ Bertrand Russell