Council Quotes - Page 14

• If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  School, Government, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.543

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• To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Gratitude, Veterans Day

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1991). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Judgement, Thousand

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• God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Change, Wisdom, Prayer

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• Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

  Abraham Clark

  Fate, Hands, Design

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• During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Epidemics, Credit, Eczema

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• One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period – the centuries that is, before Constantine, and two after, determine the boundary of our faith.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Father, Writing, Two

  Lancelot Andrewes (1967). “Sermons”

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• I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Battle, Partners, Labor

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• I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

  Kenneth Clarke

  Europe, Political, Looks

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• My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church, namely the authority of priesthood, testimony regarding the restoration of the gospel, and the divine mission of the Savior. Everything may be sacrificed in order to maintain the integrity of those essential facts. Thus, if Mormon Enigma reveals information that is detrimental to the reputation of Joseph Smith, then it is necessary to try to limit its influence and that of its authors.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Integrity, Unique, Order

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• American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

  Zebulon Pike

  Political, Agents, Persons

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad about the leaders of the Church, whether true or false, we tend to impair their influence and their usefulness and are thus working against the Lord and his cause.' ... The Holy Ghost will not guide or confirm criticism of the Lord's anointed, or of Church leaders, local or general. This reality should be part of the spiritual evaluation that LDS readers and viewers apply to those things written about our history and those who made it.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Reality, Lds

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• There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions backed by the Church's infallible teaching authority. The answer is known by those who remember the conciliar declaration of March 6, 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964. In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner any dogmata carrying the mark of infallibility.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teaching, Past, Views

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• Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Iran, Effort, Beijing

  "Coming to Terms with China" by Chalmers Johnson, www.motherjones.com. March 16, 2005.

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• There's a sense that we've obtained from various quarters in the Security Council that the notion of an international tribunal is not really practical. Certainly Indonesia is not convinced, and we get a sense that the rest of the Security Council will need to be convinced about the recommendations.

  Marty Natalegawa

  Needs, Recommendations, Quarters

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• When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?

  Jean Guitton

  Parent, Church, Saint

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• It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’

  Jean Guitton

  Teaching, Blow, Humanity

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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 do this not because it is economically advantageous - although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it - although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Law, Land

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Passion, Men

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• The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

  Carroll Quigley

  Believe, Nwo, World Government

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• Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard to the zoning ordinance, the Council sees a comprehensive approach, the ORC wants to review the ordinances and simplify them. Pam's vision was counter to that.

  Norman Foster

  Thinking, Vision, Wish

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• They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't stop talking. They just don't get it.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Jobs, Believe, Talking

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• I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

  Alan Chambers

  Gay, Rights, Cities

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• New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Father, Catholic, Church

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• According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

  Star Parker

  Sex, Wine, Cities

  Star Parker (2010). “Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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