Warrants Quotes - Page 7

• A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

  Horace Mann

  Love, Children, Growing Up

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

  Grover Cleveland

  Indulge In, Liberty, Libertarian

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as impossible as that would be under any realistic scenarios. No national security emergency exists relative to climate that would warrant increased governmental control of energy production. Today's Americans have an obligation to future Americans to elect leaders who do not believe in an omnipotent government but believe, as did the Founders, in limited government, and in the preservation of liberty and the natural rights of the people.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Believe, Rights, Government

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• Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

  Owen Feltham

  Honesty, Safety, Fame

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.4

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• I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Interesting, Humans

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• If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

  Pete du Pont

  Government, Terrorist, Known

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• Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Biblical, Views, Rivers

  Alister E. McGrath (2007). “Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution : a History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-first”, SPCK Publishing

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• God has set before you an open door which no man has a right or power to shut. If you should be shut out, it will be by your own unbelief, and not for want of a warrant to come. Enter, then, without delay or hesitation. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

  Archibald Alexander

  Opportunity, Men, Doors

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• The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Compelling Reason, Guarantees, Constitution

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• Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

  Frank Pittman

  Couple, Cheer, Brass Bands

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• I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!

  Johnny Thunders

  Eight, Attention, Paper

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• The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

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• Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Interesting, Life Is, Enough

  "Our interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love". Interview with Natalia Hawk, www.mamamia.com.au. September 30, 2013.

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• The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

  John Stuart Mill

  Atheism, World, Belief

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.346, Taylor & Francis

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• If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. [...] The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Differences, Finding Yourself

  "Unpopular Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 116, 1950.

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• Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Phones, Law, Car

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• I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

  Guy Ritchie

  Thinking, Intellectual, Violence

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• Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.

  Simon Hoggart

  Wine, World, Proud

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• This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

  George Will

  Common Sense, Age, Common

  George F. Will (1999). “The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

  Cornel West

  Mind, Being Free, Speak

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

  Will Durant

  Dream, War, Civilization

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be an adversarial process so that it's used in these extraordinary powers are applied only when there's no alternative. Only when they're absolutely necessary, and only when they're proportionate to the threat faced by these individuals.

  Edward Snowden

  Doors, Giving, Police

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Doe, Causes

  Claude Bernard, Henry Copley Greene (1957). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.

  Emperor Norton

  San Francisco, Twenties, Bay Area

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• Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

  Anton Seidl

  Art, Men, Practice

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.106, Parrot Press

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