Quotes About Authority

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.