When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Control is the source of strategic power.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.