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.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

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

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

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

I’m the only president you’ve got.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

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.

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

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

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

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

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.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

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

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

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.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

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.

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 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.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

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.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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

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

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.