Quotes About Authority

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.