Civil Authority Quotes
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil… — Thomas Jefferson
- It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with… — James Madison
- Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws. — Philipp Melanchthon
- The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of… — Harold Russell