Quotes About Authority

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

All authority belongs to the people.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

A cat may look at a king.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Ancient custom has the force of law.