Quotes about Authority
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
- James Madison
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
- Charles Finney
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
- Will Rogers
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
- Andrew Jackson
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
- Edmund Burke
It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
- Billy Graham
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
- Albert Schweitzer
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
- James Madison
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
- Aesop
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
- Ronald Reagan
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
- Edmund Burke