The highest duty is to respect authority
[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
A lightweight, by definition, is a man who cannot assert his authority over the national press, cannot manipulate reporters, cannot finesse questions, prevent leaks or command a professional public relations operation.
Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
Nothing intoxicates some people like a sip of authority
Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency.
He who has no bread has no authority
Responsibility always exceeds authority
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.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administrationís duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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