National Authority Quotes

Among the means of advancing the public interest the occasion is a proper one for recalling the attention of Congress to the great importance of establishing throughout our country the roads and canals which can best be executed under the national authority. No objects within the circle of political economy so richly repay the expense bestowed on them; there are none the utility of which is more universally ascertained and acknowledged

...nations have no command over their governments, & in fact no influence over them, except of a fleeting & rather ineffectual sort.

It we mean to found a national Govt., States must submit like individuals-the Government must be supreme—either the national, or State Government. must be so.

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

State Sovereignty. National Union.

It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe.

Go and tell those who have sent you that we are here by the will of the nation, and that we will not leave save at the point of bayonets.

While it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

Is the nation able to enforce its own laws -- its own charter - in the face of an unsympathetic and actively hostile minority?

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].

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.

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

[Describing the presidency:] ... the organ of the will of the nation ... elective kingship.

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

The British people are the boss.

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

National sovereignty is never an excuse for slaughtering your own people