Quotes about Authority

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

Sire—I have received an order, under your majesty's seal, to put to death all the protestants in my province. I have too much respect for your majesty, not to believe the letter a forgery; but if (which God forbid) the order should be genuine, I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it.

I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.

But maintained that the bishop of Rome had no authority whatever to dispense with the Word of God.

It is God himself who enables us to accept his Word as our foundation, our presupposition.

Take charge of your life or someone else will!

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

That where a woman reigneth and papistes beare authoritie, that there must nedes Satan be president of the counsel.

That the Pape is not the successour of Petir, but whare he said, "Go behynd me, Sathan."

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

The philosopher must argue for sense experience by appealing to sense experience. What choice does he have? If he appeals to something else as his final authority, he is simply being inconsistent. But this is the case with any basic commitment. When we are arguing on behalf of an absolute authority, then our final appeal must be to that authority and to no other. A proof of the primacy of reason must appeal to reason; a proof of the necessity of logic must appeal to logic;