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• To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

  Josephus Daniels

  Men, Sea, Challenges

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• Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Jesus, Real

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• People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.

  John R. Rice

  People, Fellowship

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• The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

  Augustus Hare

  Beautiful, Country, Wish

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• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, Iraq, President

  "Bush: America Has 'Great Responsibilities'". www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2004.

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• I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Determination, Believe, People

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• I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Believe, Church Today

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

  Anthony Trollope

  Honesty, Men, Political

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• To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  E. Howard Hunt

  War, Heart, Europe

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• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Equality, People, Citizens

  Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, (100), 1943.

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• I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

  Henry Adams

  Physics, Accepting, Trinity

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.94, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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• For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Journey, Departure, Poet

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  War, Europe, Iraq

  "Exclusive Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Pt. 2". Final Call interview, www.finalcall.com. January 27, 2004.

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• To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Peace, Mind, Weakness

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• The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Humanity, Fiction

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Men, True Or False

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

  Henry Miller

  Moving, Differences, Evil

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.183, New Directions Publishing

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• There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

  Pat Robertson

  Problem, Symbols, Particular

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• Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Mormonism, Christ

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• As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

  Arlen Specter

  Sound, Matter, Lasts

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• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  H. G. Wells

  Teacher, Jesus, Retirement

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.154, Xist Publishing

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• It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, People, Church

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.27

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• In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

  Earl Warren

  Education, Fields, Equal

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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