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

— Robert Toombs

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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. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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

— Herbert Hoover

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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. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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

— John Lennon

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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? ↗

— Eric Liu

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

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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

— Ellis Peters

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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. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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

— Plato

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