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  • If you hate the war, that’s fine. But you should still support the troops. They don’t get to pick where they’re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.

    Hate   War   People  
  • Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

    The New York Mirror, July 13, 1956.
  • Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

    War   Giving   Justice  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

  • Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

  • If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

    Doe   Needs   Atlas  
    Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.111, Hamilton Books
  • A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

    War   Rights   Citizens  
  • Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

    Loyalty   Mean   Giving  
  • The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check.

  • I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

  • Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.

    Beautiful   Song   Block  
  • She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. She held that even this president is not above the law.

    War   Rights   Law  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

    Ideas   Giving   People  
  • And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

    Book   People   Paper  
    Isaac Asimov (1976). “Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes”
  • I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

    Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.157, Penguin
  • Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

    Military   War   Years  
    "Afghanistan War Review Conclusions Misguided" by Barbara Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.
  • As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

    War   Justice   President  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

    Writing   Wind   Flying  
  • My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

  • Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

    Play   Actors   Checks  
    Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T”, p.266, Theatre Communications Group
  • Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.

    Party   Mean   Equality  
    Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.225, Hoover Press
  • White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

    "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), pp. 10-12, July/August 1989; later quoted in Thomas Norman DeWolf "Inheriting the Trade" (Chapter 4: The Great Folks), www.pbs.org. January 2, 2008.
  • "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

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