Quotes About Authority

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out and it commands attention, it commands change. I'm talking about the power that's inside of you.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.