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Control of space means control of the world.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
- John Calvin
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
- Bishop TD Jakes
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
- Marquis de Sade
Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead.
- Martin Bucer
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
- Martin Luther
Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.
- Martin Luther
A unjust law, is no law at all.
- Martin Luther
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
- Martin Luther
For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.
- Martin Luther
All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.
- Martin Luther