Quotes About Authority

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for, anyway?"

Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.

Can we not see that without God, government always steps in to fill the vacuum and where there is more government there is always less freedom?

La sfera politica e del potere deve essere, per la sua stessa natura e funzione, libera da condizionamenti economici. Potrebbe venire ricordata opportunamente la frase di Siila, il quale disse non essere, la sua ambizione, possedere vasellame d'oro, ma avere il potere su coloro che lo posseggono.

No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

If a man have not order within him He can not spread order about him; And if a man have not order within him His family will not act with due order; And if the prince have not order within him He can not put order in his dominions.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Since God created man with certain unalienable rights, and man, in turn, created government to help secure and safeguard those rights, it follows that man is superior to the creature which he created. Man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around. Even the non-believer can appreciate the logic of this relationship.

The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God's great knowledge, their abilities versus God's priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works.

We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

All I can say is that, for those who may be bent on avoiding the authority of Scripture, no hermeneutic is going to stand in their way.

Dr. Alston?  It's Marge, down at the office...Yes, we called him...No, apparently he's decided to go to Yale instead...That's right, sir...No, I don't know why...Yes, sir, I certainly can do that, but I think you should know, one of the wait-list students is right here...Dr. Alston?  Are you there?...Yes

I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction that our worst enemy was ourselves, our vanity, our pride and our desire for honor.

According to Fuller, laws should be (1) general, (2) publicly promulgated, (3) prospective (i.e., not retroactive), (4) clear, (5) consistent (i.e., not contain any contradictions), (6) practicable (i.e., not demand the impossible), (7) constant over time, and (8) congruent with the actions of officials. If we accept that list as defining the rule of law, America's departures from it will be apparent to readers of this book.

his message was always succinct and startling: 'If ever I utter the words I think,' he declared on one occasion, 'I hope the people will go to sleep and remain asleep until I have done with thinking. We are not here to give our thoughts, but God's words.' Manly

If ever I utter the words I think,' he declared on one occasion, 'I hope the people will go to sleep and remain asleep until I have done with thinking. We are not here to give our thoughts, but God's words.

You let the cops in. Thy've brought in a ram to take down the front door. A white chick in an evening gown will settle the cops faster than a brother with guns.

It was the way of his father's house. Carrot and stick.

Easily led. And obviously used to being handled by the women in his life. Excellent. It meant that he'd already been thoroughly house-trained.

peremptorily.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Culture follows power.