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Founding Fathers Quotes on Kings
Ammo.com ^ | 4/7/25 | Cassandra McBride

Posted on 04/07/2025 11:56:25 AM PDT by ammodotcom

“In America, the rule of law is king. But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.” –Thomas Paine

“To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. They know, and will therefore say, that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.” –Thomas Jefferson

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: foundingfathers; kings; usa
“The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.” –Alexander Hamilton

“[T]he troops of George III. have crossed the wide Atlantic, not to engage an enemy, but to assist a band of traitors in trampling on [...] those rights and liberties which, as a father, he ought ever to regard, and as a king, he is bound, in honor, to defend from violation, even at the risk of his own life.” –John Hancock

“Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness. [...] We claim them from a higher source – from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.” –John Dickinson

1 posted on 04/07/2025 11:56:25 AM PDT by ammodotcom
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To: ammodotcom

The Rule of Law of the Constitution, not the Rule of Man of Congressmen or the President or SCOTUS, but the Constitution ultimately rules in America.

The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land (US Const., Art VI, Cl. 2).


2 posted on 04/07/2025 12:12:10 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ammodotcom

NO KING BUT KING JESUS!!


3 posted on 04/07/2025 12:55:06 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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