Authority Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

— Saint Basil

“For whatever is demanded by truth, by justice, by mercy, or by love must surely be taken to be willed by God. To consent…

— Thomas Merton

Our submission defines our authority

— Bradley Cooper

There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.

— Yehudi Menuhin

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions…

— Fanny Kemble

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

What is permissible is not always honorable.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions.  "He must not be forced to…

— Aaron Milavec