You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

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

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

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.

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.

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