Quotes About Authority

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.

A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.