Authority Quotes

"Know what you are talking about" "Brevity is the soul of command" "The greater the state, the more wrong and injustice it commits" "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical" "Where there is no Law, there is no Freedom" "Power is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere" "Leaders who do not act dialogically but insist on imposing their decisions do not organize the people they manipulate them" "Covenants without the sword are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all" "Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself" "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't" "Resist much, obey little" "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse" "You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done" "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted" "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak" "To rule is easy, to govern difficult" "What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse" "For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit." "Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it" "Command is lonely."