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It is important to note that Edward Snowden was labeled as a spy not a whistle-blower - even though he exposed the reach of the spy services into the lives of most Americans. More importantly, he was denounced as being part of a generation that unfortunately combined being educated with a distrust of authority.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

It may well seem that Plato does suggest techne is the best model for moral knowledge. In other words, it may seem that his goal is to establish an expert or authority in the field of the good-bad, just-unjust.

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

I've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me.

I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.

I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Kim Jong Un is an unreasonable leader and a very dangerous person. Yet he is the person who has effective control over North Korea, and he is the person who has the authority to denuclearize North Korea.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because they would have more authority. They would have the same authority as a province now.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

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

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever, therefore, money has been raised by the general authority, and is to be applied to a particular measure, a question arises whether the particular measure be within the enumerated authorities vested in Congress. If it be, the money requisite for it may be applied to it; if it be not, no such application can be made.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.