Most men after a little freedom have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning this nation trusted in God not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

I'm not a food critic and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

We'll have a public power authority which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich beautiful and famous more authority than they deserve.

In this connection faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

But I recognize no infallible authority even in special questions consequently whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual I have no absolute faith in any person.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism Islam or other faiths.