Quotes about Authority

Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.

If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

I wouldn't really, realistically speaking, know the difference between wearing an S.S. uniform and a U.S. Marine uniform. To me it's all a uniform.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.