Quotes about Authority

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.

In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.

If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.