Quotes about Authority

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

True obedience is true freedom.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

the man who cannot follow a leader intelligently, cannot become an efficient leader.

The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don't want to do-and make them like doing it!

Church is a gathering of nobodies to worship the only real Somebody: Christ, our Head. The King of creation, raised from the dead, seated with the Father, Commander of heaven, exercising complete authority over all time and space, perfect in His justice, infinite in His mercy, holy in His perfection, the only perfect Somebody who died for nobodies like you and me.

Stop worrying about being your child's buddy. You are the only one in the world with the primary responsibility of giving your child what he needs, not what he wants.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.