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Decree Quotes

When a single decree changes everything.

These quotes look at decree as raw authority - people rising up against a decree they see as unjust, and everyday resolve to keep going despite setbacks.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

Quotes by A. E. Housman

On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can...

Quotes by Yehuda Berg

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Quotes by William Ames

In all of history, there has always been a time and a place where patriots rise up against the decree of the elites and shout, 'No more... get your hands off my freedom!'

Quotes by Wayne LaPierre

Act Quotes

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Quotes by Olympia Brown

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

Quotes by Nelson A. Miles

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer...

Quotes by Mstislav Rostropovich

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

Quotes by Joshua A. Norton

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

Quotes by Joshua A. Norton

After Quotes

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.

Quotes by John Quincy Adams

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert...

Quotes by John Bates Clark

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

Quotes by Harold H. Greene

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become...

Quotes by Harold H. Greene

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Become Quotes

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will...

Quotes by Daniel Ellsberg

As your newly crowned queen of Earth, it is my first royal decree that flats are sexy and nails are optional.

Quotes by Alaska

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of decree does this page cover?
Political, theological, and historical - patriots resisting a decree, divine decree in religious thought, and a centuries-old government decree.
Does the page take a political stance?
No - it describes the patriots quote factually as resistance to a perceived unjust decree, without endorsing any particular movement.
What does the theological quote say about decree?
That divine decree comes first in the exercise of God's efficiency, described as agreeing perfectly with a divine nature.
Is there a historical decree mentioned?
Yes, one references a Spanish government decree from a century before the Pilgrims landed, tied to a grim historical Act against Indigenous people.
How is that historical decree treated on this page?
Factually and soberly, as historical record rather than as a springboard for present-day political commentary.

Others turn to theology, describing divine decree as central to God's nature, and history, noting a centuries-old decree whose consequences remain a sober Act to remember.