Quotes About Authority

My word will be final.

A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Blind obedience is a sign of weakness. Faithful obedience is a sign of strength.

Except for God, the King's our only lord.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

The quality which gave such force to Calvin's teaching was his close adherence to the Bible as an inspired and authoritative book.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.

Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

The Liberal party is held together, not by forces within, but by a force above it. It consists, like the being that declined a chair, of two wings and a head.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangstersget control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.