Quotes About Authority

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

Great power involves great responsibility

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.