Authority Check Quotes

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

When you establish a powerful position, the first think you have to do is check that power and make it accountable.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Power must be held accountable. If it is not held accountable, it will wreak havoc on all why try to hold it accountable. Global power must be held accountable globally.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

Who can judge the judge?

You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance; otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.

… in time of peace armies are dangerous to liberty …. the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.