Quotes related to Romans 13:1
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.
— Gordon Hinckley
If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.
— Billy Graham
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
— Euripides
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
— Henry David Thoreau
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
— James Madison
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.
— James Madison
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
— John Adams