Quotes About Authority

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained

In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be..

When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved

Groupthink encourages conformity and this consistently leads back to trusting and following the leader, for it is through him or her that their cause will be achieved.

Davout commanded the Ambleteuse camp under strict discipline.

God gave it to me. Woe to him who touches it.

commander-in-chief of the British army,

He was commander-in-chief because his father was king.

who marched his men to the top of the hill and marched them down again.

In truth, though, Villeneuve was still in command, and still in Cadiz.

The country was still a republic, but once again with a dynastic family at its head.

Napoleon was now one of the crowned heads of Europe.

he was still General Bonaparte, the revolutionary soldier who had seized power by force of arms

rather than constitutional right.

grand that he had the right to keep his hat on in the presence chamber of the king.

His Majesty did not open post from dictators.

Villeneuve looked at Lieutenant Fulcran Fournier and gave him the nod. It was time to surrender.

and more than thirty generals.