Quotes About Authority

However reluctant Italians are to embrace a multiracial society, the old antipathy to government and authority works in favor of the illegal alien.

the city's government seized and sold Church property until the

For as the poets and the warriors fell by the wayside the bureaucrats took over.

Collins' comment was: 'a captain who sent his crew to sea, and tried to direct operations from dry land'.

Your Government would soon find itself regarded as a tyrannical junta which having got into office by violence was seeking to maintain itself by a denial of constitutional rights.

Dealing with police and politics were the pivotal props of the system...

The Collins grave plot is 4 ft in width and 8 ft in depth and the 'Celtic Cross' intended to be erected thereon will be 11? 6? in height and the sculptor has specified for a minimum base of 4? 6? x 3? 0? x 1? 3? high. While the plot in its present layout is fully that width the committee will not allow the foundation of the monument to exceed 4? without Government authority.32

the British position was so untenable morally that they could not use their Army properly and were never able to put forth their full military might.

Gaelic civilisation was quite different. Their unity was not of any military solidarity. It came from sharing the same traditions... They never exalted a central authority... The land belonged to the people... held for the people by the Chief of the Clan.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

I don't want awesome powers. They come with awesome responsibilities, and those suck.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

You make decisions, not suggestions; you know the answer while everyone else is still asking questions.

Power is the mistress that stalks us all.

They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing.

I guarantee there is nothing more depressing than knowing morons have complete power over you.

the president's oath to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and presidents have strained against the strictures of that oath since World War I.

The Constitution has never greatly bothered any wartime president," Franklin D. Roosevelt's attorney general once wrote—and every president since has seen himself at war.

Under Cheney's direction, the United States moved to restore the powers of secret intelligence that had flourished for fifty-five years under J. Edgar Hoover. In public speeches, the president, the vice president, and the attorney general renewed the spirit of the Red raids. In top secret orders, they revived the techniques of surveillance that the FBI had used in the war on communism. The

their installations. Once a wiretap was approved, Hoover considered it approved forever. Hoover had asserted that the FBI was free to install bugs at will, without informing a higher authority. He told Katzenbach that this power had been granted him in perpetuity by Franklin Delano Roosevelt a quarter of a century ago.

Hoover had installed 738 bugs on his own authority since 1960; the Justice Department's attorneys had been informed about only 158 of them, roughly one in five.

A mob is a mob whether made up of government officials acting under instructions from the Department of Justice, or of criminals, loafers and the vicious classes.

The CIA falsely claimed credit for the arrest and wrested back control of the interrogation. Its officers blasted the prisoner with noise, froze him with cold, and buried him in a mock coffin. Soufan and Gaudin protested. The CIA officers told them the techniques had been approved at the highest levels of the American government. Soufan

we see that the enlightened monopolist can occasionally prove a delusional paranoid.