Jonathan Mayhew Quotes

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• Extremes are dangerous.
• To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they…
• Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses…
• But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
• People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed…
• I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to,…
• Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
• All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their…
• Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves…
• There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism
• It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince…
• It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their…
• There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness
• The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
• They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the…
• The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield…
• Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the…
• For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and…
• Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
• The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God:…

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