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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."

"Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong."

"But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes."

"God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness."

"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."

"There's nothing like a military man, even out of uniform."

"Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck."
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"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."


"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."


"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."


"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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