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What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.

Timothy Geithner

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner