Robert H. Jackson Quotes

No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

A political society cannot endure without a supreme will somewhere.

We do not support rebellion against our rulers even if they are unjust. We do not make supplications against them and do not set any revolution against them.

If you see from your rulers what you hate, hate the action they do but do not rebel against them You should listen and obey them even if the ruler smites your back and takes your wealth.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

The will of the people makes governments legitimate.

As sons obey their father and wives obey their husbands, so should citizens obey their rulers.

We have a great many chiefs and headmen but, be they ever so great, they must all abide by the laws ... These laws are not made for any person in particular but for all.

A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. But there are different degrees of obedience, and it is not every degree that is commendable. Only an unmitigated despotism demands that the individual citizen shall obey unconditionally every mandate of persons in authority.

In government it is order that matters.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors

No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.