Quotes about Authority

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

True obedience is true freedom.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.