Quotes About Authority

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.