Quotes About Authority

The King is dead! Long live the King!

Put not your trust in princes.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Ay, every inch a king.

Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten."

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

Stay out of jail.

So many laws argue so many sins.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.