O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of…

Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings,…

— John Dickinson

“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.”

— Abraham Lincoln

On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn…

— Yehuda Berg

Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant…

— John Calvin

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed…

— Adrian Rogers

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

— Robert Browning

Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical…

— Shoshana Zuboff

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of…

— Zygmunt Bauman

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or…

— John Burroughs

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good…

— Myles Munroe

Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be…

— Robert Jay Lifton

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and…

— Ronald Reagan

This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.

— Catherine E. Pugh