Quotes About Authority

So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

George Washington, Commander of the American armies, who, like Joshua of old, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still, and they obeyed him.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Security without liberty is called prison.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

He that cannot obey cannot command.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forc'd by the occasion.

On the whole, I wonder'd much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

In free governments the rulers are the servants.

The constitution] can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

Those who are feared are hated.

A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.

D?vod vytvo?ení tolika trestných ?in? je stejný, jako vždy byl u všech diktatur: pot?eba udržovat ob?any ve strachu a nev?domosti, co sm?jí a co nesm?jí, a možnost trestat kohokoli kdykoli za cokoli.