There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and read more

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than read more

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we read more

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.

There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, read more

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Obedience alone gives the right to command

Obedience alone gives the right to command