Quotes About Authority

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

Syllables govern the world.

They that govern most make the least noise.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

Emotions make excellent servants, but tyrannical masters.

When any human group decides that they can define God, the outcome is always predictable. The "true faith," once defined, must then be defended against all critics, and it must also then be forced upon all people—"for their own good, lest their souls be in jeopardy.

Word of God" or to treat the words of the Bible as if they were words spoken by the mouth of God is to me not just irresponsible, it is also to be illiterate.

He ruleth all the roost.

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

It's not about electing the right people. It's about a narrowing their responsibilities.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Good government has to mean less government.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England.

Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything contemplated in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers.

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