Quotes About Authority

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement.

I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn't a bad word.

Our government is not protecting us. They are exploiting us.

The bottom line is, our law enforcement is tasked with protecting us from harm - not with creating it by levying penalties for 'offenses' that present no real risk to anyone.

I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

It was impossible to operate in the aluminium business without krysha - very real physical protection.

As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.

Royals are always very clear about where they're moving, because they've been told by protection officers exactly what they're doing.

My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.