Authority Quote by Fredrik Bajer

“authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the…

— Noam Chomsky

“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side.…

— Paul Scott

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

— Anonymous

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

— John Engler

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

— Oscar Wilde

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

— Lord Acton

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

— James Dobson

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

— L. Neil Smith

“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers and of…

— Thomas Sowell

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from…

— Thomas Jefferson

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

— Andrew Jackson

The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of…

— Alexander Hamilton