Commission Quotes
277 quotes by 236 authors
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If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their…
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial…
— John Sparkman
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Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
— Simone Weil
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but…
— Lactantius
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Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make…
— Robert E. Lee
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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or…
— Saint Augustine
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I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.
— Newt Gingrich
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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
— Mark Twain
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Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under…
— George Washington
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If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
— Unknown Author
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The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
— Ron Luce
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Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
— Linda Tripp
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When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits…
— Shirley Chisholm
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There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the…
— Valentina Tereshkova
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Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to…
— Timothy Pickering
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See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to…
— Richard Sibbes
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Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.
— Oswald J. Smith
Who Wrote These Commission Quotes
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