Authority Quotes
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.
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There is nothing going on in your life that you don't have the authority to overcome.
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I don't run behind authority.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.
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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'
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Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves like oppressing lords over such as are under them, not knowing that their wives, children, servants, subjects are their fellow creatures, and hath an equal privilege to share them in the blessing of liberty.
