Authorities Quotes

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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. — Russell Baker
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. — Robert Benchley
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. — Kate Adie
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering… — John O. Brennan
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he… — Mel Brooks
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion… — Queen Noor of Jordan
The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction. By… — Andrew Napolitano
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. — Gijs de Vries
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. — Elwyn Brooks White
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],… — Frederick Soddy
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. — Lucretia Mott
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles;… — Thomas Paine
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of… — Robert A. Heinlein
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and… — James Madison
I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because… — Yekaterina Samutsevich
In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell… — Jesse L. Greenstein

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