Quotes About Authority

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

**** it, holler them across.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.