Quotes about Authority
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.
- Martin Luther
Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
- Oswald Chambers
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
- Henry David Thoreau
The greater number of men are merely corporals.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
- Henry David Thoreau
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
- Herman Melville
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
- James Madison
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
- John Adams
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
- John Adams
When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
- John Calvin