Quotes About Authority

When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

With words we govern men.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.