Quotes about Authority

God's words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God's words lead to life.

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.

Divide and rule.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

He loves power. A terrible love.