Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
Order is heaven's first law.
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.