Conferred Quotes

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

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

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

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

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.

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

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

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.

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.

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

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.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.