Sufficient Reason

Famous quotes containing the words sufficient and/or reason:

    For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke, 14:28.

    The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)