Famous quotes containing the words authority and/or order:
“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to,—for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well,—is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)