Give ear,O ye heavens, and I will speak: and hear,O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon thetender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 32:1^2.

The nuttis schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, Haldis the kirnell, sueit and delectabill; Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch And full of frute vnder ane fenyeit fabill.

-Henryson, Robert
c.1470  Moral Fables, prologue, l.15^19.

Anti-classic art, if it may even be called an art, is merely theart oftheidle.It isthe doctrine ofthosewho desireto produce without working, to know without learning.

-Ingres,Jean Auguste Dominique
  Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. The purpose shall be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

-Marshall, George C(atlett)
  Speech at Harvard, 5  Jun, announcing the European Recovery Plan (ER A) that became known as the Marshall Plan.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The Cosmological Eye,'An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere'.

Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.

-Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Criticism, l.342^3.

In the western hemisphere, the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

-Roosevelt,Theodore
  Message to Congress, 6 Dec.

Est-ce qu'au fond, ce qui fait peur, dans la doctrine que je vais essayer de vous exposer, ce n'est pas le fait qu'elle laisse une possibilite¤   de choix a'   l'homme? For at bottom, what is alarming in the doctrine that I am about to try to explain to you isöis it not?öthat it confronts man with a possibility of choice.

-Sartre,Jean-Paul
  L'Existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism and Humanism,1948) (translated by Philip Mairet).

   I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Epipsychidion', l.149^53.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

-Warren, Earl
  Ruling to declare segregated schools unconstitutional, 17 May.

Nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world; that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraidöthe little along with the great and powerful. Those are American principles, American policies.We could stand for no others. Theyare also the principles of mankind, and must prevail.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Speech to the Senate, 22 Jan.