August Quote by Francois Furet

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the…

— James Buchanan

As an Asst. Secretary of State, I often urged authoritarian governments around the world not to use emergency powers to defy their legislatures, courts,…

— Tom Malinowski

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or…

— Eddie Campbell

“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with…

— Thomas Sowell

Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on…

— Barack Obama

If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been…

— Edward Gibbon

“In August 1944, the War Ministry in Tokyo had issued a directive to the commandants of various POW camps, outlining a policy for what…

— Hampton Sides

If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

— George W. Bush

See, Indira Gandhi was wrong in declaring the Emergency. She tried to put me in jail, but she could not. People voted her back,…

— Subramanian Swamy

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

— Ronald Reagan

“The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some…

— Michel Foucault

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

— Tariq Ramadan