Authority Quote by Henry David Thoreau

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

— Horace

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

— Voltaire

“First, societies lacking full religious liberty lack a critical restriction on state power. When citizens are free to have an ultimate commitment to something…

— Timothy Shah

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

— George Washington

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too…

— George Washington

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even…

— Gustav Heinemann

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

— Thomas Jefferson

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

— Hudson Taylor

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the…

— Aristotle

“There is not, there cannot be, a State without religion. Take the freest States in the world—the United States of America or the Swiss…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

— Horace