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Authority Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- All authority belongs to the people.
- Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil…
- 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…
- It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
- 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…
- Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
- But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion…
- If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government,…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed…
- In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I…
- Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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