Quotes About Authority

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it, but it's a kind iv a disgrace.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can not be told.

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

The buck stops here.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

A mad world, my masters.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

The pen is mightier than the sword. The [??n!$] is mightier than the pen.

The doctor takes care of you but he is not God.

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.

Should people take justice in their own hands when their system of law does not function?

The pyramid is the pillar that holds power aloft. If it wavers,everything collapses.

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.