The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.

If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the People to the intention of their agents.

A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.

A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government