Quotes about Authority
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
— Will Rogers
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around
— Will Rogers
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
— William Booth
Secondly, If the command of Christ to teach all nations be confined to the apostles, then all such ordinary ministers who have endeavoured to carry the gospel to the heathens, have acted without a warrant, and run before they were sent.
— William Carey
The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?
— William Golding
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
— William Hazlitt
Those who can command themselves command others.
— William Hazlitt
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
— William Hazlitt
We admit of no government by divine right… the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
— William Henry Harrison
I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.
— William Howard Taft