Their Conduct Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The…
— John Quincy Adams
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
— Woodrow Wilson
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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they…
— Edmund Burke
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as…
— George Washington
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My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was…
— Thomas Huxley
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It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters…
— J.R. Miller
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Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their…
— William Henry Ashley
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An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.
— Don Herold
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Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their…
— Benjamin F. Wade
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Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders…
— Alice Duer Miller
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I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view…
— George Eliot
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Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around…
— Malcolm X
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I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar…
— James Madison
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The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives,…
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in…
— William James
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