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Authority Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And…
- The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious…
- If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a…
- Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute…
- It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a…
More Authority Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker
- Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
- I cannot stand authority. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will… — Samuel Adams
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison