To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
John KnoxI sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
John KnoxNeither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
John Knox