Emergencies Quotations | Page 2

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

God is not there just for emergencies.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.