Eighth Commandment
Americannoun
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Bill Clinton, who is fond of quoting the Bible, might be tempted to remind Falwell of the Eighth Commandment: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
From Time Magazine Archive
Longtime Working Politician Roosevelt would cooperate with Boss Tom Platt's state G.O.P. machine, then fight it, then cooperate again, as he put it, in anything that did not infringe "the Eighth Commandment and general decency."
From Time Magazine Archive
A thief does not in general hold any theory about the rightness of larceny, and there is no society in the United Kingdom at least who deny the moral validity of the Eighth Commandment.
From England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey
A. The Eighth Commandment is: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead
When railways were invented they were excepted from the protection of the Eighth Commandment.
From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Robert J. C. Stead
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