Quotes About Authority

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

The worst government is the most moral.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.