Emergency Powers

Famous quotes containing the words emergency and/or powers:

“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view “realistically”; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent—war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“The powers that be are ordained of God.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 13:1.