We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
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God commanded His 'chosen people' to become mass murderers (Numbers 31:16-17) before the ink had dried on his moral magnum opus 'The Ten Commandments'. Unfortunately, humankind has followed this internecine hypocrisy even since.
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If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Lincoln's Gettysburg address has 226 words, The Ten commandments has 296 words. The US dept. of agriculture's order setting the price of cabbage has 15,269 words
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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.
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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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