Domestic Tranquility Quotes:

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, Happiness, Work, Spiritual Wealth, Wealth And Happiness

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

- Angus King

source: "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

topic: Responsibility, Government, Defense, Preamble, Domestic Tranquility

It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences, of understanding our similarities and of finally forming the cohesive nation that can one day experience the 'domestic tranquility' so hoped for by the framers of the Constitution.

- Robert C. Maynard

topic: Differences, Work Out, Understanding, Domestic Tranquility

A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

- Elbridge Gerry

source: Constitutional Convention, 1787.

topic: Adventure, Army, Temptation, Domestic Tranquility

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

- Gouverneur Morris

topic: Blessing, Order, America, Preamble, Domestic Tranquility

The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

topic: Freedom, Blessing, Order, Preamble, Domestic Tranquility