Quotes About Authority

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.