Quotes related to Romans 13:1
When it was all over, Pitt had overwhelmingly won the House of Commons, and as politically weak as he was before the election, he was now strong. It was an historic and glorious reversal, and little Wilberforce was at the very center of it all.
— Eric Metaxas
The change that had occurred in the political landscape was profound and dramatic and historic, and would affect the nation for years and years to come.
— Eric Metaxas
Democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders.
— Eric Metaxas
Newton didn't tell him what he had expected—that to follow God he would have to leave politics. On the contrary, Newton encouraged Wilberforce to stay where he was, saying that God could use him there.
— Eric Metaxas
We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.
— Eric Metaxas
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
— Benjamin Disraeli
An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I think people are quite refreshed with politicians who aren't concerned with what Arctic Monkeys track they like, but with the day-to-day, dull business of politics.
— Bill Bailey
Oh, go away,' I said. 'Go to your Third Force and York Harding and the Role of Democracy. Go away and play with plastics.' Later I had to admit that he had carried out my instructions to the letter.
— Graham Greene
History teaches that the best way to destroy the Church is to give it political power.
— Gregory Boyd
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
— Tony Campolo