Councils Quotes
53 quotes by 43 authors
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Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an…
— Mark W. Clark
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Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience…
— Martin Luther
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Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they…
— Frank Press
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
— James Madison
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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down…
— Saint Augustine
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As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,…
— Saint Augustine
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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to…
— Saint Augustine
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This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and…
— James Madison
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply…
— George Washington
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Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears…
— George Washington
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What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The common and continual…
— George Washington
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He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt,…
— Abraham Cahan
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in…
— Charles Lamb
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All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by…
— James Cross Giblin
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We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must…
— Robert Kennedy
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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
— Zebulon Pike
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