- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authority Quotes
Quotes on leadership, responsibility, and holding authority.
Authority in these quotes tends to be practical rather than abstract, showing up as a treasurer's power to weigh in on spending decisions or a driver's role within a transit system. That grounded angle fits well with Government quotes.
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- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
- Message
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020