Stephen Douglas Quotes

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

You don't know how long you can play this game, so you keep playing it until they tell you to stop.

They would say, 'Okay, do KP,' and I would say, 'Excuse me, but I can't do KP. I'll do it tomorrow if that's all right with you.' And they'd say, 'Hell no, it's not all right with us. You do KP.'

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Learn to obey before you command.

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

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.