Authority Quotes

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The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving… — James Madison
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to… — Alexander Hamilton
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding… — William Blackstone
Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in… — Ronald Reagan
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must… — Alexander Hamilton
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… — Alexander Hamilton
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to… — Alexander Hamilton
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the… — Thomas Jefferson
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government. — Alexander Hamilton
Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a… — Alexander Hamilton
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken… — James Madison
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by… — James Madison
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports… — Henry David Thoreau
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin
Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the… — Tycho Brahe
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a… — Strobe Talbott

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