Bishops Quote by Rufus Choate

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt…

— George Agnew Reid

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

— Xenophon

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate…

— James Madison

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

“What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the…

— James Madison

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“For the civil government can give no new right to the church, nor the church to the civil government. So that, whether the magistrate…

— John Locke

There is no king where there is no law

— Proverb

“Even the very system of bishoprics galled the devout adherents of the old, saintly Celtic church, that had no worldly trappings, courted no thrones,…

— Ellis Peters

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

— Seneca the Elder

“At this point, a social flaw that always existed with regard to the [Roman] aristocrats in their townhouses became more evident. No longer finding…

— Norman F. Cantor