Authority Quotes

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Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary… — Louis A. Johnson
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and… — John White Geary
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to… — Kevin Kelly
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender… — Wilfred Burchett
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge… — John Wycliffe
I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar… — Anna Louise Strong
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. — Jack Schwartz
I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most… — Bob Graham
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech,… — Robert Dale Owen
The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And… — Leonard Boswell
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to… — Lactantius
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God,… — Charles Hodge
The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism… — Phillip Noyce
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and… — Nicolas Malebranche
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by… — Siegfried Sassoon
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience… — William Kingdon Clifford
No authority is higher than reality. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. — George Bancroft
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the… — George Washington

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