Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it.

Our relationship with presidents is often like that of a teenager and parent. He's our leader, but sometimes we rail against his decisions for us. We push back at times to make sure he knows who's boss.

I've never been any good with authority.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

You obey Wade Barrett's orders and you disrespect every person who has ever been champion. Including yourself.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.

Learn to obey before you command.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

I've always had trouble with authority.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

I could never take orders from anyone.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

I don't curtsy to Frank Sinatra and I'm not going to curtsy to a fucking king.

To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will.

Better to be in the dust than crawl near the throne.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.