Quotes about Authority
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
- Thomas Paine
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
- Thomas Paine
God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.
- Paul Washer
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
- Charles Hodge
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
- James Madison
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
- Eric Metaxas
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
- James Madison
Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment
- Myles Munroe
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
- George Washington
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
- St. Thomas Aquinas