#author

You can't become a star just by watching one on TV. Dream big and go for your goals! ↗

— Koltn Burbank

#inspirational-thought #quote #teenage-author #dreams

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#authorized #been #case #certain #constitution

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#authority #been #between #changing #channels

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#arrangement #authority #cia #classified #could

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#author #being #both #funeral #i

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#authority #divine #established #exist #god

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#authorized #baptize #god #him #his

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#exists #god #him #king #legal

We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities. ↗

— David E. Price

#bills #breaks #comes #communities #country

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms