Finnish Proverb Quotes

All kings of England had ever, in cases of necessity or expediency, been accustomed, at intervals, to elude them [the laws.]

You take care of emergencies first—in life and in politics.

Congress doesn’t act unless there is an emergency.

The time when people really want government is in an emergency.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

You don't want to institutionalize the excesses required to meet extraordinary threats. The law just can't anticipate all the contingencies.

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law.

On great occasions every good officer must be ready to risk himself in going beyond the strict line of the law, when the public preservation requires it; his motives will be a justification.

There are certain emergencies of nations, in which expedients, that in the ordinary state of things ought to be forborne, become essential to the public weal.

It is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies, or the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

Those republics which in time of danger cannot resort to a dictatorship, or some similar authority, will generally be ruined when grave emergencies occur.

911 rings at the mayor’s office, not at the Justice Department or the White House.

I may in an emergency do things on military grounds which cannot be done constitutionally by Congress.

The emergency we now face is economic. New laws are not enough.

Whenever a specially important matter or a great emergency is presented before the Confederate Council and the nature of the matter affects the entire body of the Five Nations, threatening their utter ruin, then the Lords of the Confederacy must submit the matter to the decision of their people and the decision of the people shall affect the decision of the Confederate Council. This decision shall be a confirmation of the voice of the people.

We give up our liberties too casually [in emergencies and crises]

Maintaining the law in a time of war is virtually impossible.

The law of cases of necessity is not likely to be well furnished with precise rules; necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases, is likewise legal; it is not to be considered as matter of surprise, therefore, if much instituted rule is not to be found on such subjects.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.