Authority Quote by Lord Acton

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

— Albert Camus

Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his…

— Calvin Coolidge

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

— Mark Twain

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

— Oscar Wilde

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk…

— Andrew Jackson

Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

— Lord Acton

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

— Plato

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong,…

— Confucius

The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized…

— Edward Everett

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