Quotes about Authority

Fourth, a Hebron lifestyle will give you the ability to walk in great authority.

God wants to crown us, like David, with the authority to rule in ungodly situations. Intercessors rule from Hebron.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered things and he did not. Lord Brightlingsea was swept through life on a steady amnesiac flow.

His daughter, as part of himself, came within the normal range of his solicitude; but she was an outlying region, a subject province; and Mr. Orme's was a highly centralized polity.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No-body will be argued into slavery.

Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.

Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye. The policy has been the same in many cases of religion.

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.