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“The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.”

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Book:To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.”

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Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.”

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Author:Cliff Stearns

“If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton