Stability Quotes

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well; Why change them? 'Chi sta bene, no si mueve,' said the Italian, 'let him who stands well, stand still.' This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

Never change horses in midstream.

I've always wanted an office job so I can tell someone, "I'm going to take a long lunch," or "I'm out of the office." I don't know why, but I've always seen so much stability in clocking in.

I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

Love has earth to which she clings.

What is well planted will not be uprooted.

He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered.

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.

We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

You can only have lasting peace based on justice.

Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the fact of the matter is we do rely on imported oil to fuel our economy and to fuel our nation.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.