Quotes About Authority

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Man is more powerful than matter.

Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'