#authority

Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#authority #crime #did #enforce #enter

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#authority #authorizing #benjamin #benjamin franklin #bush

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. ↗

— Philip Roth

#audacity #authority #beauty #belief #contest

When the pope sits on the chamber pot to shit, does he believe in his own infallibility? Does not every imposter occasionally recognize his own hairy, homely humanity? Perhaps not; worn long enough, sometimes the Mask of Authority becomes the man. Even looking in a mirror, he will see the sacred Mask and not his own ordinary human face. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#home

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ↗

— James Madison

#constitution #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought #politics #freedom

Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #right #freedom

There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard. ↗

— John M. Frame

#christianity #logic #religion #the-bible #truth

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#elders #parents #respect #royalty #respect

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

— John Adams

#because #character #corrupts #demands #importance

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. ↗

— David Amram

#authority #blake #classic #ginsberg #had