20 Conferred Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Geronimo

Me Trust Honor Resolved Others Worthy More Never Had Wronged Because Prove Been Chief Than Conferred Deeply

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix. Charles Krauthammer

Respect Believe Moral Religious Embryo More Conception Also Am Equivalent Than Conferred Human Personhood Appendix Deserves

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Life Man Father Every Way Kinds Seeds He Came Conferred

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. Plato

Benefit Wrongly Said Author Conferred May Often Injure

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily. Eleanor Catton

Me Man Book Prestige Would Prize Conferred Ordinarily Prefer Treated

Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations. George Will

Class Grateful Political Burden Pay Other Corporate Corporations Favored Collect Cost Feast Consumers Passing Political Class Conferred Subsidies Them Taxation Taxes Production Credits

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. John C. Calhoun

Will Master Become Congress President Assured Those Seeking Proper Never Beyond Powers Executive Surely Makes Pass Limits Person Conferred Hands Transcends Fruits Certain Usurpation Assigned

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. John Marshall

In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen. Liu Xiaobo

Freedom Constitution Citizen Responsibility Freedom Of Speech Exercise Conferred Order Chinese Social Fulfill Should Social Responsibility Right Speech

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. Paul Di Filippo

Writing Better Doors Writer Highest New Opening Altered Readers Permanently Praise His Textual Author Conferred Any Essential Irreplaceable Literary Transformative Landscape Engaging Certainly Assertion Her

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred. Robert Toombs

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred. Robert Toombs

Power States Diminished Shackled Both Trade Foreign Domestic Commerce Commercial Conferred Different Conflicting Regulate Regulations Hence

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. Robert Toombs

War Government Home Great Independence Power Our Besides Abroad Great Power Had Contracted Debt Conferred Taxation Large Therefore

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms. Sara Sheridan

Fashion Respect Culture Women Words Gender Our Thousand Thousand Years Given Over Term Arms Refer Years Truly Up Conferred Lady Interesting Social Derogatory Many

Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone? William Godwin

Alone Great Feeling Important Thinking Benefit Prosecuted Him Discovery Conferred Human Race Incapable Standing Who Human Race Ever

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. Zebulon Pike

Success Death Honor Men Defeat Shall Steps Name Like Glory Said Still Conferred American Brave Brave Men Died Await Even