Quotes About Authority

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

A man can never compete with a woman's father

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

We are all the President's men.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.