Quotes About Authority

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities.

Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two. There - that is it. That is the way good little boys and girls should do. I see one little girl who is looking out of the window - I am afraid she thinks I am out there somewhere - perhaps up in one of the trees making a speech to the little birds. [Applausive titter.]

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

Well, I know. It's jam—that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch.

In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I

I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that's out of kings.

Oh, I dasn't, Mars Tom. Ole missis she'd take an' tar de head off'n me. 'Deed she would.

Any established church is an established crime, an established slave pen.

I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.

Y la iglesia era sabia, sutil y conocía muchas maneras de esquilmar una oveja, o una nación.

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

Tom did play hookey, and

to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot.

We ordered him peremptorily to sit down with us.

To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven