Remarks in New York City at a Reception for Delegates to the State Republican Convention http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/61782e.htm (17 June 1982), this is a restatement of "The Eleventh Commandment" by California Republican Party Chairman Gaylord Parkinson, which Reagan first used in 1966 <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
“Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Known as "The Eleventh Commandment" this statement was made famous by Reagan, but was actually created by California Republican Party Chairman Gaylord Parkinson.
Misattributed
Dante Alighieri book Paradiso
Canto XVII, lines 58–60 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
“I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.”
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 206
Context: I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
“If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.”
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
To The New York Legal Aid Society (16 February 1951).
Extra-judicial writings
Ben Salmon (1889–1932) American activist
Letter To President Wilson http://archive.org/details/LetterToWilson1917 (June 5, 1917) by Ben Salmon <br class="br">Context: Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. … The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. … When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
Fox News
2010-03-23
Beck suggests Obama administration "coming after him" and may kill him
Media Matters for America
2010-03-23
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201003230049
2010s, 2010
Leonard Bacon (1802–1881) American Congregational preacher and writer.
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 138.
