Decree Quotes

126 quotes by 106 authors

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the… — Harold H. Greene
Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind… — Joseph Murphy
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree! — Oliver Goldsmith
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort… — Ludwig von Mises
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of… — John Tillotson
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. — Galileo Galilei
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the… — Olympia Brown
Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg! — Chris Oyakhilome
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next… — Emperor Norton
[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run… — Doug Bandow
The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And… — Ronald Reagan
When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really… — Pope John Paul II
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! — William Makepeace Thackeray
God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees. — Charles Spurgeon
The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'dâ€”the… — Reginald Heber
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. — Ludwig von Mises
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. — William Shakespeare
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not… — Seneca the Younger
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their… — Joseph de Maistre
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord… — Nelson A. Miles

Who Wrote These Decree Quotes

106 authors contributed a total of 126 Decree Quotes, led by these top contributors: