Quotes About Authority

Gracious Queen, even Herod of Judea wouldn't dare look at you unless you were in a good mood.

Master Custard, you must rise and be hanged

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, / But not a scepter to control the world.

Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands. Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach. Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

Read it you, sirrah.

We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as 'tis.

M.O.A. I. doth sway my life.

24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes

in modern times most of the mischief ascribed to the military has been wrought with the advice and consent of civil authority. As

Ephesians Six, Five: Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.

the iron determination with which we must carry out Hitler's orders could only be obtained by a stifling of all human emotions.

Government got too big—too powerful. Agencies like the IRS had entirely too much power.

Politicians are . . . politicians. It is the nature of government to become more intrusive, more controlling of people's lives and their property. Yours, ours now, perhaps less than many others. But who knows what the future may hold?

John Adams said it: fear is the foundation of government. And I'll add to that: once the citizens lose that fear, a government cannot enforce its laws. If you doubt that, look at what's happening in this country today." Matt

Well-armed citizens were more of a danger to lawbreakers than the authorities were. If anybody ever figured out how to take all the guns away from the people, so that they could no longer defend themselves, then hell would break loose.

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out of the circles of tin with her scissors. I always swore she could find the biggest switches of any woman in the Ozarks.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

Otherwise," said Dr. Halse, "we will have you committed for contempt of court." Ross bowed slightly. "I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.

Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order. He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

Either you trust a man and give him authority to carry out his treatment or you do not. When it goes well you are happy that you did so. When it goes ill you think, if only . . .

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

the lord lieutenant was the king's man and from him came all things great and small. Or, to be explicit, what came from him were appointments to be justice of the peace, and to be a JP meant to be the possessor of undisputed local power. For good or ill the JPs ruled, unchecked by Privy Council or the public purse.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.