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Mahmoud Abbas We have one authority and one...
John Abizaid It's also natural in that part...
John Acton By liberty I mean the...
John Acton The fate of every democracy...
Lord Acton The man who prefers his...
Samuel Adams The natural liberty of man is...
John Adams Because power corrupts, society's demands...
Joseph Addison To say that authority, whether...
Joseph Addison No oppression is so heavy or...
Aeschylus The man whose authority is...
Sherman Alexie My only purpose is to teach...
Henri Frederic Amiel Let us be true: this is...
David Amram Allen Ginsberg was a world...
Julie Andrews I am a liberated woman. And...
Phil Angelides It is fundamentally important that...
Saint Thomas Aquinas In order for a war to...
Hannah Arendt To be free in an age...
Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority...
Ibrahim Babangida I believe that historians and...
Charles Babbage That science has long been...
Thomas Babington American democracy must be a...
Francis Bacon Truth is the daughter of time...
Michael Baden I get involved if a problem...
Paul Bailey Blanche is written with a...
Fredrik Bajer As a result of my study...
Mitchell Baker We've broken the code base...
David Baker The Palestinian Authority refuses on...
Abu Bakr I have been given the...
Mikhail Bakunin Does it follow that I reject...
Mikhail Bakunin But I recognize no infallible...
Mikhail Bakunin I bow before the authority of...
George Bancroft Where the people possess no...
George Bancroft The best government rests on...
Martha Beck People are so afraid of...
Walter Benjamin Death is the sanction of...
Bruno Bettelheim Punishment may make us obey...
Joe Biden But I was amazed at how...
Ambrose Bierce Destiny: A tyrant's authority for...
Ken Blanchard The key to successful leadership...
Allan Bloom Rock gives children, on a...
Don Bluth Now they call in all of...
Neal Boortz How many Catholic schools do...
Leonard Boswell The National Intelligence Director needs...
Allen Boyd Though no one wants war...
Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like...
Lakhdar Brahimi Of course the UN brings in...
Aristide Briand This means that the search for...
Van Wyck Brooks There is no stopping the...
Rita Mae Brown I believe in a lively...
Sherrod Brown The president overstepped his authority...
Wilfred Burchett It was necessary to bluff the...
Arleigh Burke Any commander who fails to...
Kenneth Burke Creation implies authority in the...
James MacGregor Burns A revolution is an act of...
George Carlin I have as much authority as...
Thomas Cavendish To see and be acquainted with...
Steve Chabot Just because people are in...
Frank Chodorov All wars come to an end...
Marcus Tullius Cicero The authority of those who...
Emile M. Cioran Crime in full glory consolidates...
Frank A. Clark A leading authority is anyone...
William Kingdon Clifford To consider only one other...
William J. Clinton I believe I'm a better...
Jim Clyburn Democrats believe we must have...
Morris Raphael Cohen To be sure, the vast majority...
Henry Steele Commager Men in authority will always...
Pierre Corneille My reason, it's true, controls...
Bill Cosby I am certainly not an...
Robert Creeley Don't name it, as they say...
Robert Creeley It's as though all the terms...
John Culberson Foreign nationals entering the United...
Georges Jacques Danton In revolutions authority remains with...
Elmer Davis One of the things that is...
Gray Davis We'll have a public power...
Norm Dicks Last year, Congress gave the...
Denis Diderot The decisions of law courts...
Marlene Dietrich I love quotations because it...
Byron Dorgan You can delegate authority, but...
William O. Douglas Since when have we Americans...
Norman Douglas Distrust of authority should be...
Maureen Dowd Celebrity distorts democracy by giving...
Sibel Edmonds And I have been campaigning...
Albert Einstein I do not believe in...
James Ellroy I am conservative by temperament...
Ralph Waldo Emerson The reliance on authority measures...
Ralph Waldo Emerson The faith that stands on...
John Engler I created no authority that...
Michael Enzi The President sends us a...
Euripides New faces have more authority...
Euripides Authority is never without hate...
Suzanne Fields Many critics of the Palestinians...
John T. Flynn The NRA provided that in...
Thomas Foran There are millions of kids who...
Malcolm Forbes Those who enjoy responsibility usually...
Bill Forsyth The movie business is very...
Michel Foucault Freedom of conscience entails more...
Marie de France The dead and past stories that...
Brendan Francis A quotation in a speech...
Barney Frank I think there was an absolute...
Erich Fromm Authority is not a quality one...
Galileo Galilei In questions of science, the...
Galileo Galilei It vexes me when they would...
Mohandas Gandhi Moral authority is never retained...
Daryl Gates They have the ability to take...
Charles de Gaulle I grew up to always respect...
Charles de Gaulle Authority doesn't work without prestige...
John White Geary Men of authority have employed...
Mark Goddard There's a certain way you...
Mark Goddard They sent me the script...
Alberto Gonzales We respect the role of the...
Nadine Gordimer There is no moral authority...
Bob Graham I voted no on the resolution...
Peter Gray We will work closely with the...
Andrew Greeley There has always been a...
Matthew Green Nor bigots who but one way...
Lee Greenwood Historically, America has answered to...
William Greider The burnt odor in Washington...
Thomas Chandler Haliburton Whenever there is authority, there...
Robert Hall Mankind are apt to be strongly...
Lee Haney Most kids will not volunteer...
Sheikh Hasina After so many cases of terror...
Rutherford B. Hayes Universal suffrage should rest upon...
Gustav Heinemann Everywhere, authority and tradition have...
Robert A. Heinlein No statement should be believed...
Robert A. Heinlein One could write a history of...
Ernest Hemingway For a war to be just...
James Hetfield Authority pisses me off. I...
Anita Hill What we really need to be...
James Hillman We have to give value to...
Ethan A. Hitchcock Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority...
Thomas Hobbes It is not wisdom but Authority...
Thomas Hobbes Words are wise men's counters...
Dee Hock If you look to lead, invest...
Charles Hodge Christ has not only ordained...
Charles Hodge Our second remark is, that the...
Charles Hodge The Church, during the apostolic...
Charles Hodge So too, in forming a...
Hal Holbrook I developed a resistance to...
John Jay Hooker It is plain that, when it...
David Hunt The Homeland Security department doesn't...
Thomas Huxley Every great advance in natural...
Thomas Huxley The ultimate court of appeal...
Thomas Huxley Learn what is true, in order...
Thomas Huxley The improver of natural knowledge...
Antony Jay Referring the matter to a...
Thomas Jefferson I was bold in the pursuit...
Thomas Jefferson Leave no authority existing not...
Andrew Johnson Outside of the Constitution we...
Louis A. Johnson Eighty percent of the problems...
Vernon Jordan The last job I applied for...
Chief Joseph Lawyer acted without authority from...
Ryszard Kapuscinski There are several reasons why...
Moshe Katsav The international community and Israel...
Moshe Katsav The Hamas organization is unwilling...
Irving R. Kaufman Courtrooms contain every symbol of...
Arthur Keith I prize the conditions under...
Arthur Keith The proper balance between individual...
Kevin Kelly But in a turbulent environment...
Jimmy Kimmel That's my main flaw: I always...
Lincoln Kirstein In liberal democracy and anxious...
Jurgen Klinsmann I had to delegate authority to...
Lawrence Kohlberg The individual makes a clear...
Lactantius Let us come to the...
Dalai Lama The ultimate authority must always...
Norman Lamm Conventional dogmas, even if endowed...
Sonny Landham We need to stop the erosion...
David Herbert Lawrence We have to hate our immediate...
Nigella Lawson I wasn't good with authority...
Timothy Leary Think for yourself and question...
Barbara Lee We all agree that we've got...
Robert E. Lee Obedience to lawful authority is...
Maya Lin My parents are both college...
Walter Lippmann Most men, after a little...
Kenneth Robert Livingstone I undertake that, in the...
Hugh Lofting I make no claim to be...
Vince Lombardi Football is like life - it...
James Russell Lowell He who is firmly seated in...
Ann Macbeth The State Film Authority will...
James Madison War should only be declared by...
Nicolas Malebranche In this connection, faith and...
Jonathan Mayhew For which reason I would...
Bryant H. McGill Knowledge is that possession that...
Vince McMahon But because our organization has...
Golda Meir Authority poisons everybody who takes...
John Mellencamp Do I think it's OK to...
John Mellencamp I'm the guy who wrote The...
Agnes E. Meyer The churches... have lost much...
Stanley Milgram The disappearance of a sense...
John Milius I've always had trouble with...
Frederica Montseny Authority is something from which...
Roy Moore They don't want to be reminded...
Roy Moore The whole basis of the...
Esai Morales In order to be a lieutenant...
Robert Morgan Part of what we love about...
Jim Morrison When you make your peace with...
Joshua A. Norton The Supreme Court of the...
Phillip Noyce The more she rejected us the...
Alfred Noyes Of the sayings of Christ in...
Joyce Carol Oates Homo sapiens is the species...
Barbara Olson Of all presidential perks, the...
Wilhelm Ostwald In other words, the Church...
Robert Dale Owen In days when the public safety...
Adnan Pachachi It won't be a question of...
William Penn Between a man and his wife...
Zebulon Pike Your former Fathers the Spaniards...
Plato The wisest have the most...
John Charles Polanyi Scientists and scholars should constitute...
Michael Polanyi Admittedly, scientific authority is not...
Michael Polanyi Admittedly, the body of scientists...
Pete du Pont Has President Bush exceeded his...
Jon Postel I also administer the Internet...
Susan Powter I don't value authority. I...
Orson Pratt The kingdom of God is an...
Orson Pratt At various times during the...
Orson Pratt God is the King. In him...
Orson Pratt All the modern christian churches...
Max de Pree In some South Pacific cultures...
Herbert Read I call religion a natural...
Ronald Reagan Surround yourself with the best...
Robert Reich Our moral authority is as...
Keith Richards If you're going to kick...
Tom Robbins In order to be respected...
J. M. Roberts Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Put two or three men in...
Elihu Root The attractive idea that we...
Ernestine L. Rose No! on Human Rights and...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau No man has any natural...
Donald Rumsfeld You will launch many projects...
Harold Russell The issue is whether the...
Jeffrey Sachs Senior development specialists in the...
Kim Y. Sam In my day, the president ruled...
Siegfried Sassoon I am making this statement as...
Jack Schwartz Israeli Arabs have more political...
Arnold Schwarzenegger My relationship to power and...
Charles de Secondat But constant experience shows us...
William H. Seward But there is a higher law...
Tupac Shakur I think I'm a natural-born...
Cindy Sheehan It's up to us, the people...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley A king is always a king...
Hu Shih And revolutions always mean the...
Clare Short The Liberals have been pressing...
Ignazio Silone Liberty is the possibility of...
Edith Sitwell I have taken this step because...
Nikki Sixx I harbored a lot of resentment...
Joe Slovo No movement finding itself in...
Gerrit Smith It is manifestly vital to the...
Tony Snow Every one of our greatest...
Ralph Steadman Moral authority has been laid...
Gloria Steinem The authority of any governing...
Louis Stokes There are some classified documents...
John Stott His authority on earth allows...
Peter Straub Instead, I was interested in...
Anna Louise Strong I have very little hope that...
Stuart Symington I had learned many years ago...
Stuart Symington Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving...
Thomas Szasz A teacher should have maximal...
Allen Tate But in our age the appeal...
William Temple Authority is by nothing so...
Alfred Lord Tennyson Authority forgets a dying king.
Terence He makes a great mistake...
Alan Thicke I'll be on my third honeymoon...
Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through...
Benjamin Tucker The exercise of authority over...
Benjamin Tucker The two principles referred to...
Lao Tzu The people are hungry: It is...
Miguel de Unamuno Anyone who in discussion relies...
Richard Ben-Veniste Well, our statute provides us...
Linda Vester The school made it very clear...
Sid Vicious Undermine their pompous authority, reject...
Leonardo da Vinci Nothing strengthens authority so much...
Leonardo da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument...
Voltaire Men use thought only as...
Barbara Walters If it's a woman it's caustic...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Well we'd just seen Gerry. I...
William Hedgcock Webster We have disciplinary authority and...
Julius Wellhausen The Priestly Code preponderates over...
Vita Sackville-West Authority has every reason to...
Paul Weyrich Cameras in classrooms are no...
Theodore White For those men who, sooner or...
Oscar Wilde There is no necessity to...
Walter J. Williams That's why editors and publishers...
John Winthrop Liberty is the proper end and...
Henry A. Wise I will not nullify, I will...
John Witherspoon The people in general ought to...
Mary Wollstonecraft The being cannot be termed...
John Wycliffe In order to the existence of...
Moon Unit Zappa I didn't have any concept of...
Peter Nivio Zarlenga No authority is higher than...


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