"Question Authority"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri Aug 15 21:53:07 UTC 2008


I am trying to find the earliest use I can for the proverb "question authority."  It is hard to search, because one gets a lot of non-proverbial uses like "He began to question authority more as he got older."  I would welcome any early proverbial citations.

Fred Shapiro

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