Quotes About Authority

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

The laws of men are not infallible.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Man's word is God in man.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.