I created no authority that wasn't already there under the…

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else,…

— Peter Riegert

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The United States Constitution grants education decision authority to the states and localities not to the president of the United States.

— Dan Forest

The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but…

— Andrew Jackson

I believe in the separation of powers. If a judge crosses the line between interpreting and making the law, he has crossed the line…

— Orrin Hatch

The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it…[I]f followed to its logical…

— Clarence Thomas

[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no…

— James Madison

Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of…

— Walter E. Williams

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

— Stanley Milgram

“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep

“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an…

— Erica Goros

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal