Quotes about Authority
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
— Edmund Burke
No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.
— AW Tozer
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
— Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
— Ayn Rand
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
— Ayn Rand
With words we govern men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
— George Bernard Shaw
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
— George Washington
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
— Grover Cleveland
God is the Author and the Creator.
— Terry James