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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Joseph Addison

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

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