Authority Quote by Alexander Hamilton

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without…

— Juan Cole

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

— James Hunter

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

— Kofi Annan

No force can conquer the service personnel and people who, in support of their great leader, have turned out in the struggle to defend…

— Kim Jong-un

The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their…

— Alexander Hamilton

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

— Simone Weil

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

— Lord Acton

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

— Karl Liebknecht

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state…

— Anthony de Jasay

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government…

— Ferdinand Marcos

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule…

— David Icke