Quotes about Authority
all authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.
— Abraham Kuyper
it may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.
— Abraham Kuyper
When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.
— Abraham Kuyper
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
— Abraham Lincoln
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
— Abraham Lincoln
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.
— Abraham Lincoln
I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.
— Indya Moore
As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'
— Todd Young
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
— John Wycliffe
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
— Elie Wiesel
Unlimited trust should only be placed in the real Word of the Revelation that we encounter in the faith transmitted by the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?
— Pope Benedict XVI