"It is dangerous to be right in matters……" — Voltaire

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• We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly… — John O. Brennan
• The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed.… — Mel Brooks
• War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over… — 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… — Andrew Napolitano
• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial… — Gijs de Vries
• In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to… — Elwyn Brooks White
• The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph… — Frederick Soddy
• A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. — Lucretia Mott

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