Quotes About Authority

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.