Quotes About Authority

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American… [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.", Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!" we yelled. "Stalin is dead! No school today..." was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.