Truly Respectable

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

-- Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757 - 1804), Founding Father of the United States, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution, Federalist No. 62 (26 February 1788)