Authority Quote by Roger Williams Download Open image “The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.” — Roger Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Consent People Power Sovereign
The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people. — Thomas Hooker Copy Share Image
The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. — James Burgh Copy Share Image
“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be interpreted to… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
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