Quotes About Authority

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

War is the father and king of all.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

War knows no law except that of might.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to "declare war.

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.