Decree Quotes

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Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks… — John Burroughs
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What… — Anthony Kennedy
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought… — Saint Augustine
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree. — Sr?a Trifkovic
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a… — Jessica Mitford
A decision by the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or a decree may not be scrutinized by a judge. In addition, the… — Adolf Hitler
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children,… — John Calvin
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition… — Thomas Jefferson
Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be… — Queen Victoria
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence.… — Jefferson Davis
The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through… — Ibn Ata Allah
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. — Robert Breault
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any… — B. C. Forbes
It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and… — Galileo Galilei
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed… — Clement Attlee
Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties,… — Emperor Norton
God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all… — Jacobus Arminius
The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind,… — Jerry Pournelle
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills… — Chauncey Wright

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