Authority Quotes
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The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.
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When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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There is nothing going on in your life that you don't have the authority to overcome.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I don't run behind authority.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.
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God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
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I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
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If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
