Quotes About Authority

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

Where no law is, there is no transgression.

If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

There is a significant difference between a leader and a cheerleader.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.

Obedience is only practiced by the cowardly.

Il ne faut pas être plus royaliste que le roi [One must not be more royalist than the king].

Sic semper tyrannis [Thus always to tyrants].

Cuius regio eius religio [He who controls the area controls the religion].

Divide et impera [Divide and rule].

Ipse dixit [He himself said it].

"Nobody asked you, sir," she said.

There always appears, on the ruins of tyranny, a man taller than the others, a man that everyone sees, that everyone listens to and this one is the master of rubble.

I am told that it is for my good that I am governed; however, as I give my money to be governed, it follows that it is for my good that I give my money, which is possible; but which nevertheless deserves to be checked.

All these men who say that the people must govern themselves, really govern the people.

So, like today, the government machine kept, as it does, the same cogs, and I can only change the hand that turns the crank.

When you ask the government for freedom, the stupidity of your petition is instant proof to the latter that you have no grasp of your rights.

It is necessary, either that the government devours the country, or that the country absorbs the government.

Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands.

There are no bigger GOONs than politicians.