Authority Quote by Adolf Hitler

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

— Simon Bolivar

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

— Omar al-Bashir

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

— Rick Wilson

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act…

— David Lidington

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would…

— James Madison

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives…

— Howard Zinn

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the…

— George Orwell

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

— Anonymous

“For realists, the state is the main actor and sovereignty is its distinguishing trait. The meaning of the sovereign state is inextricably bound up…

— John Baylis

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make…

— Alexander Hamilton