Quotes About Authority

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

All good government must begin at home.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.

If someone says they shouldn't have to follow regulations because they're making food in their home, I'd say, 'Why is your home so safe that it doesn't need that level of oversight and control?'

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.