Quotes about Authority
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
- Edmund Burke
Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.
- John Adams
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
- Thomas Jefferson
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
- Alexander Hamilton
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Power always brings with it responsibility.
- Theodore Roosevelt
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
- Henry Ward Beecher
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.
- John Calvin
There is no power in your name or my name, but there is awesome power in the name of Jesus because of everything he represents.
- Joyce Meyer
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.
- Joyce Meyer
The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
- Mahatma Gandhi