Synonyms for ten commandments
ten com·mand·ments

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1. Ten Commandmentsnoun

   Synonyms:
   Decalogue

2. Ten Commandmentsnoun

   A list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were written by God and given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets.

   Synonyms:
   Decalogue

Princeton's WordNet

1. Decalogue, Ten Commandmentsnoun

   the biblical commandments of Moses

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1. H.L. Mencken:

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

2. James Madison, (attributed):

   We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

3. Isadora Duncan:

   We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

4. Dean Young:

   My hope is they have the Ten Commandments in the schools all over the state of Alabama as well as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the historical documents that go with this country, that way, children will be able to see and ask, ‘What are these documents’ and a teacher can say, ‘Those are the Ten Commandments and they come from God and this is what they say.’.

5. Bruce Prescott:

   Frankly, I’m glad we finally got the governor and attorney general to agree to let the monument be moved to private property, which is where I believe it’s most appropriate, i’m not opposed to the Ten Commandments. The first sermon I ever preached was on the Ten Commandments. I’m just opposed to it being on public property.