Quotes about Authority

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.

The Bible is pregnant with politics. You cannot read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation and go through too many chapters that are not involving politics.

I'm the only president you've got.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.