Quotes About Authority

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.