Ten Commandments Quotes

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, God, Society

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• The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Law, Liberty, Guides

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• No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Break, Ten

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• We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

  James Madison

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Men, Expression, Years

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• I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Sarcastic, Running

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• We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

  James Madison

  4th Of July, Heart, Ability

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• The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Real, Lying

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• The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

  Will Rogers

  Long, Ems, May

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

  Laura Schlessinger

  Mood, Ifs, Ten

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• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

  Randall Terry

  Fall, Being Free, Foundation

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• Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

  Martin Luther

  Should, Teach, Our Family

  Martin Luther (1961). “Martin Luther, selections from his writings”, Anchor Books

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• If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Religion, Thousand

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• The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Law, Moral

  "Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams".

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• Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.

  Charlie Campbell

  Men, People, Tolerance

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• Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

  Earl Wilson

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Moral, Bases

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• The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Code Of Ethics, Christianity, Founding Fathers Religion

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Humanity, Truth Is

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• I remember when Ronald Reagan was president he said 'if the American people obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule we wouldn't have any problems.' The first time I heard him say it I thought, 'That's too simplistic.' There are complicated problems back there. But you analyze it, he's right.

  Bill Bright

  People, President, Golden

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

  Adolf Hitler

  Circumcision, Invention, Lost

  "Hitler Speaks". Book by Hermann Rauschning, p. 220, 1939.

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• The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Two, Fellow Man

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.296

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• The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

  Roy Moore

  Law, Ten, Commandments

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 16, 2002.

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• The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Paper, Examination, Six

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• When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

  Katha Pollitt

  God, Country, Children

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