- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conferred Quotes
On honors given, and what they mean.
These conferred quotes focus on formal recognition, from soldiers said to have conferred honor and glory on the American name even in defeat, to the aura of statesmanship conferred on vacillation.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright, way to their representatives, reminding them that the right to life is conferred on human beings not by the powerful ones of this world but by the Creator.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
- Constitution Of The United States
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
- Commonwealth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new textual doors and engaging new readers. That the author's oeuvre was essential and irreplaceable and transformative.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Party conferred the honourable title, 'The Heroic Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,' on our working class that supported the great leaders' ideas and leadership with loyalty.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020