Absolutes Quote by Ambrose Bierce

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible…

— Ambrose Bierce

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an…

— Lysander Spooner

A minister is supposed to be there to remind his permanent officials that they work for the rest of us. If, instead, he becomes…

— Daniel Hannan

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do…

— Henry David Thoreau

To be prime minister, you need to fight many entities, you need to be very determined. It's not going to fall in your lap.

— Ayelet Shaked

“Politics is about power and patronage, and ministerial positions are won not just on the basis of competence but also in recognition of a…

— Sanjaya Baru

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

— Robert Shea

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent…

— Orson Pratt

“On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.”

— Brandon Sanderson