Quotes about Authority
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
- Roger Williams
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
- James A. Garfield
Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.
- Beth Moore
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
- Frank Herbert
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
- Toni Morrison
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
- Aristotle
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
- Henry David Thoreau
If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?
- Ronald Reagan
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
- Will Rogers
Precedents once established are so much positive power.
- James Madison
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
- Bishop TD Jakes