Quotes about Authority
A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
- Leonard Ravenhill
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.
- Richard Wurmbrand
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
- Phillips Brooks
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
- Calvin Coolidge
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
- Vance Havner
Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.
- Donald Trump
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
- George Bernard Shaw
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
- Martin Niemoller
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
- Abraham Lincoln
I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
- Martin Luther
I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.
- Charles Spurgeon