Quotes About Authority

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

People don't start wars, governments do.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

What is government but theft by consent?

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.