Obeying Quotes - Page 8

• There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Victory, Hours

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• We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Contentment, Development, Republic

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• Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Order, Habit, Benign

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• We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Philosophy, Mistake

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