Quotes about Authority
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? 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.
— James Madison
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.
— James Madison
But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature.
— James Madison
Quotes. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
— James Madison
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
— James Madison
It is the power of God operating through the teaching of his Word that alone has power "to demolish strongholds" (2 Cor. 10:4).
— James Montgomery Boice
Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed.
— James Carse
The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. Power is never evident until two or more elements are in opposition.
— James Carse
Religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.
— James Carse
She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children. She was never embarrassed, and her anger, though never permitted to be visible, made itself felt the more.
— Dorothy Sayers
As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.
— Dorothy Sayers
The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'
— Glenn Beck