Famous quotes containing the words order of, order, precedence and/or commonwealth:
“This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)
“Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)