Quotes about Authority
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
— John Adams
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
— John Adams
When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
— John Calvin
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
— Nathan Meyer Rothschild
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
— Abraham Lincoln
A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"
— Tony Evans
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
— St. John Chrysostom
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
— George H. W. Bush
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.
— John Calvin
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
— John Lennon
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
— Vince Lombardi
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
— Frank Herbert