Quotes About Authority

Querer a los que tienen el poder es un instinto humano natural. El Maestro

Un acto de terror obliga a obedecer. Sin obediencia hay caos. Con obediencia llegan la paz y el orden. Primero obedecemos por temor. Después obedecemos por amor. Marius Semeon Ortiz

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

Había una guerra, pero, como siempre, la dirigencia colombiana aceptaba como legítima toda violencia que se ejerciera desde el poder y condenaba como criminal toda violencia que se opusiera a las autoridades, incluso en legítima defensa, aunque la actuación de las autoridades fuera evidentemente injusta.

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

As President Kallio signed the document that gave the Moscow delegation authority to conclude the war on Moscow's terms, he growled, "May the hand wither that is forced to sign such a document as this." A few months later, the old man suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed in his right arm.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

The hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world.

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.