Ten Commandments Quotes - Page 5

• But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.

  Roger Williams

  Religious, Order, Law

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• Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.

  Robert Orben

  Years, Eight, Trying

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• As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

  James Keller

  Time, Women, Chinese

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• I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.

  Yehuda Bauer

  Inspirational, Time, Bystanders

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• In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Divorce, Law

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• Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

  Michelle Malkin

  Character, White, House

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• The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

  Tom Lantos

  Giving, House, Bills

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• The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Ideas, Religion, Ought

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• There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

  Mordecai Richler

  Eight, Class, Ethics

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• You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'

  Jay Leno

  School, Interesting, Conservative

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• Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

  Cliff Stearns

  War, Religion, Cases

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• The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Change, Party, Essence

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• Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Lying, Fire

  John Hagee's "The Fish Gate" sermon, September 2, 2007.

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• The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Gentleman, Difficulty

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• So remember, my meaning of discipline is not that of any Ten Commandments...Your discipline has to come from your very heart, it has to be your own-and there is a great difference. When somebody else gives you the discipline, it can never fit you; it will be like wearing somebody else's clothes. Either they will be too loose or too tight, and you will always feel a little bit silly in them.

  Rajneesh

  Silly, Heart, Differences

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• It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Firsts, Belief, First Amendment

  McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union, 545 U.S. 844, 2005.

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• It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.

  Leonard Read

  Morning, Integrity, Phones

  "The Complete Works of Leonard E. Read". 1976.

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• I feel that I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God ... my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God.

  Roy Moore

  Prayer, Scary, Fundamentals

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• Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
  Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Ships, East

  "Mandalay" st. 6 (1892)

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• In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, School

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• A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Goal, Impressive, Instance

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• Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

  Josh Billings

  Laughter, Next, Ten

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• Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

  John Bright

  Wilderness, Complaints, Remarks

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• Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religion, Pages

  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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• If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

  Robert Townsend

  Policy, Manuals, Publish

  Robert Townsend (1984). “Further Up the Organization”, Random House Incorporated

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