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Top 15 Jonathan Mayhew Quotes (2024 Update)

Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.”

1. “Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.”

2. “People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.”

3. “There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.”

4. “Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.”

5. “Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.”

6. “It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “Extremes are dangerous.”

7. “Extremes are dangerous.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.”

8. “I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.”

9. “But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.”

10. “The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.”

11. “Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “It is blasphemy to call tyrants and oppressors, God’s ministers. They are more properly the messengers of Satan to buffet us. No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are just, ruling in the fear of God.”

12. “It is blasphemy to call tyrants and oppressors, God’s ministers. They are more properly the messengers of Satan to buffet us. No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are just, ruling in the fear of God.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.”

13. “All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will – We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.”

14. “It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will – We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.”

15. “Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.”

16. “For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.”

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Jonathan Mayhew Quote: “It is universally better to obey God than Man when the laws of God and Man clash and interfere with one another.”

17. “It is universally better to obey God than Man when the laws of God and Man clash and interfere with one another.”

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