As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
No authority is higher than reality.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it.
I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.