Quotes About Authority

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Power is not happiness.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.

You don't have to be a professional to express an experienced opinion. Often times, the professionals are silent...or biased...

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

History is written by the winners.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.