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