Quotes About Authority

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

True obedience is true freedom.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

People do not make wars; governments do.

War justifies everything.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.