Authority Quotes

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By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill… — Pete du Pont
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of… — Robert A. Heinlein
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and… — James Madison
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of… — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence. — Alexander Hamilton
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A… — Alexander Hamilton
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age… — Unknown Author
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're… — Unknown Author
I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because… — Yekaterina Samutsevich
In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell… — Jesse L. Greenstein
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience… — Martin Luther
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with… — James Madison
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. — Wendell Phillips
People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T… — Unknown Author
I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work… — Barack Obama
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken

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