Unwarranted Quotes
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"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or begat a child."
brennan, william j., jr.— Writing for the court, Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972)
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, farewell address, 1961
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them — isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
václav havel— Speech of October 1989, accepting a peace prize; quoted in The Independent, London (9 December 1989)
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for thedisastrousrise of misplaced powers exists and will persist. 302
— 1961 Farewell address to the nation,17 Jan.
"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or begat a child."
— Writing for the court, Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972)
I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.
christopher vokes— The Occupation, p. 208
Thetraditional disputes of philosophers are, for themost part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
Sir Alfred Jules Ayer— 1936 Language, Truth and Logic, ch.1.
