Quotes about Authority
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Cicero
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
- Margaret Mead
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
- Confucius
Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan
If the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.
- AW Pink
Obedience is the path to freedom.
- James Faust
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
- GK Chesterton
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
- Will Rogers
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing
- John Adams
The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.
- Mark Batterson