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I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments. — Anton Szandor LaVey

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God. — Colin S. Smith

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments. — Theodore Roosevelt

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall. — Randall Terry

As ancient Israel had removed the Ten Commandments from its national consciousness, so America did likewise, removing the Ten Commandments from — Jonathan Cahn

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back. — Kinky Friedman

[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments. — P.G. Wodehouse

None of the Ten Commandments concern what humans must do "for" God; — Dennis Prager

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. — Anatole France

I am not a titleholder; I don't steal; I don't lie... — Ljupka Cvetanova

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred. — Colin S. Smith

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments. — Richard Dawkins

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that. — Roy Moore

The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden. — James Mikolajczyk

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. — H.L. Mencken

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. — Charles Dudley Warner

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them. — Will Rogers

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule. — David Josiah Brewer

With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need. — Dennis Prager

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law. — Roy Moore

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were. — Ted Koppel

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments. — Maurice Strong

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. — Ronald Reagan

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. — P. J. O'Rourke

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. — Gary North

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity ... Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision ... — Adolf Hitler

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart. — James Madison

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. — Tracy Morgan

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. — John Phillips Marquand

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies. — Randall Terry

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. — Robert Breault

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself? — Colin S. Smith

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. — Jefferson Smith

People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think. — Judy Martz

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman. — H.L. Mencken

I am saying to you that to me the Constitution of the United States is just as much from my Heavenly Father as the Ten Commandments — George Albert Smith

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood". — Laura C. Schlessinger

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. — Josh Billings

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them." — James Keller

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.' — Robert Townsend

Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments. — Felix Wantang

How much do you know about the Ten Commandments?"

"Well, I know there's ten of them." ----- Daniel and Lucas — K.L. Burrell

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst. — Rudyard Kipling

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms. — Fob James

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. — Mordecai Richler

Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility (The Ten Commandments, 10). — J. Douma

The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose. — Frederick Lenz

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments — G.K. Chesterton

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face. — William Shakespeare

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose. — Colin S. Smith

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. — Randall Terry

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday ... unless there's a game on. — Steve Martin

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason. — Willie Nelson

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion. — Pat Riley

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create ... — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39. — Tom Lantos

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. — James Russell Lowell

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three. — Courtney Love

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. — Malcolm Bradbury

My eleventh commandment is to make sure I follow the first ten. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn't defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later. — Gena Showalter

The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living. — Erwin Raphael McManus

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments. — Thomas Reed

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark. — John Bright

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime. — Gary Bauer

I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou. — Yvonne De Carlo

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. — Zig Ziglar

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments. — Felix Wantang

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. — Bertrand Russell

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. — Cliff Stearns

What Moses brought down from Mt Siniai were not ten suggestions. They are Commandments — Ted Koppel

Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues. — Roy Moore

Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David — Joseph Heller

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. — Billy Wilder

Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. — Edwin Louis Cole

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith