“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”
Thomas Hobbes
““We will Obey Law, Until it's time to Re-Write that Law!” Hitler”
Hitler
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein
“When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.”
Matt Groening
“The wisest have the most authority”
Plato
“So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community”
William Blackstone
“[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Daniel Webster