Their Conduct Quotes

32 quotes by 31 authors

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
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty. — Woodrow Wilson
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
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
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
It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as… — George Washington
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
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
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
An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women. — Don Herold
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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