A city where the citizens obey the laws is happy in peace and invincible in war.
Justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice is the principle of order in political society.
Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.
Without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
Order is not conformity; real order comes only when there is freedom from disorder.
Discipline is not suppression; true discipline is the natural order born of understanding.
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow.
Things have their roots and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning.
When the root is neglected, what should spring from it cannot be well ordered.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing different.
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