Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.