Quotes About Authority

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can't bring down God's house.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters