Conferred Quotes

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.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover'¢ our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion'¢ or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw'¢ themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved

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