Quotes About Authority

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

We are either kings or pawns of men

God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.