Absolute Authority Quotes

Everything within the State. Nothing outside the State. Nothing against the State.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: 'Mine!'

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The Sovereign is absolute; for there is no other Authority but that which centers in his single Person, that can act with a Vigor proportionate to the Extent of such a vast Dominion.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

We elected a President, not a Pope.

The authority of a king is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

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.

Empires just don’t bargain.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and whenever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

I am not responsible to the Senate and will not submit my actions to them.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister.