Duty Quote by Edward Everett Hale

“No ruler has ever held power for long without the respect of the governed,” Carlin had told her countless times. “Rulers who attempt to…

— Erika Johansen

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet…

— Samuel Smiles

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove…

— Joseph de Maistre

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

— William Shakespeare

“They sighed: "This leadeth to captivity-- Perchance destruction, ending dark and dire. Yet must we yield to human liberty Its own, e'en though a…

— Orson F. Whitney

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

— Will Durant

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

— Bill Johnson

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

— Thomas Jefferson

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom…

— Cnut the Great

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

— Peter Hollingworth