As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it. — William James Copy Share Image
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far… — Phil Dourado Copy Share Image
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“But then she reminded herself that there were plenty of people who were afraid of the police, even if they had clear… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
People who use LSD today know how to use it. Therefore, I hope that the health authorities will get the insight that… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express… — Basilea Schlink Copy Share Image
