Quotes About Authority

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

Before all else, be armed.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.