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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Quotes by William O. Douglas

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

Quotes by William Hedgcock Webster

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

Quotes by William Greider

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

Quotes by William A. Dembski

We live in cautious times where HR has a very inflated sense of authority over companies.

Quotes by Will Speck

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Quotes by Wilhelm Ostwald

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.

Quotes by Wilfred Burchett

The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.

Quotes by Walker Stapleton

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

Quotes by Vernon Jordan

God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

Quotes by Tony Evans

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

Quotes by Tom Stoppard

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Quotes by Tom Robbins

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the ENCRYPT Act sends a clear message that the complicated issues with encryption must be addressed thoughtfully and nationally.

Quotes by Ted Lieu

I was good at embarrassing authority. It was fun. There's a fearlessness that goes along with being a kid.

Quotes by Tara Stiles

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Quotes by Stanley Milgram

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

Quotes by Sonny Landham

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

Quotes by Sherrod Brown

It is a historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush because, as an executive, he had his authority.

Quotes by Sheila Jackson Lee

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Quotes by Seamus Heaney

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

Quotes by Sam Neill

I've never been any good with authority.

Quotes by Rupert Everett

It is crucial that the House exercises its oversight functions to ensure constitutional accountability of government agencies, especially as the bureaucracies associated with ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank flex their muscles and seek to expand their authority.

Quotes by Ron DeSantis

President Obama made far-reaching, unilateral changes to our nation's immigration policy despite saying on over 22 different occasions that he did not have the authority to do so.

Quotes by Ron DeSantis

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Quotes by Robert Metcalfe

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

Quotes by Robert Hall

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Quotes by Rita Mae Brown

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

Quotes by Richard Seymour

At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.

Quotes by Richard Ben-Veniste

As I got older, I was able to articulate why I was rebelling against authority - because their motives were much more forceful and hurtful than I had ever thought.

Quotes by Richard Belzer

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

Quotes by Rachel Simmons

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

Quotes by Pratibha Patil

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Quotes by Pierre Corneille

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Quotes by Peter Straub

No authority is higher than reality.

Quotes by Peter Nivio Zarlenga

A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.

Quotes by Peter Landesman

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

Quotes by Pete du Pont

After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.

Quotes by Pedro Pierluisi

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Quotes by Paul Weyrich

The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.

Quotes by Paul Singer

Paul Ryan whipped the votes to get fast track Trade Promotion Authority to sell our jobs to foreign countries. He absolutely worked on that. Paul Ryan owns it. He can't say he doesn't agree with it, because when he did that, that contract was already written. It was already set up - that treaty was already set up.

Quotes by Paul Nehlen

If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.

Quotes by Paul Gosar

The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.

Quotes by Paul Gosar

One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.

Quotes by Parker Conrad

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

Quotes by Orson Pratt

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.

Quotes by Orson Pratt

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Quotes by Norman Douglas

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Quotes by Norm Dicks

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

Quotes by Nikki Sixx

The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.

Quotes by Naftali Bennett

I don't run behind authority.

Quotes by Naguib Sawiris

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Quotes by Nadine Gordimer

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

Quotes by Moshe Katsav

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Quotes by Molly Ivins

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Quotes by Michel Foucault

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Quotes by Michael Cunningham

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Quotes by Michael Baden

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

Quotes by Matt Gonzalez

I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.

Quotes by Mark Rylance

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

Quotes by Louis Stokes

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Quotes by Louis A. Johnson

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

Quotes by Lou Barletta

Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today.

Quotes by Lisa Murkowski

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

Quotes by Linus Torvalds

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

Quotes by Linda Hunt

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

I've always been a tilter of lances against authority.

Quotes by Leo Sayer

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

Quotes by Lee Greenwood

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Quotes by Lech Walesa

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Quotes by Larry Kramer

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Quotes by Lao Tzu

When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old.

Quotes by Kyle Chandler

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Quotes by Kim Young-sam

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

Quotes by Jurgen Klinsmann

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

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.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

Quotes by Jon Postel

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

Quotes by Jon Taffer

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

Quotes by John Wycliffe

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

Quotes by John T. Flynn

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Quotes by John Polanyi

For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.

Quotes by John Paul Stevens

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

Quotes by John Oliver

I've always had trouble with authority.

Quotes by John Milius

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.

Quotes by John McDonnell

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

Quotes by John Jay Hooker

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

Quotes by John Engler

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

Quotes by Joel Edgerton

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Quotes by Joe Biden

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.

Quotes by Joe Biden

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Quotes by Jim Morrison

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