Quotes about Authority
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
- Ayn Rand
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
- Benjamin Disraeli
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
- Edmund Burke
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
- Aristotle
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Influence is not government.
- George Washington
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
- Tony Campolo
Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.
- Rick Warren
The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
- Rick Warren
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln