Party of 1776 - United States Founding Fathers - James Otis

Freedom and Safety without Christianity

"When a man's will and pleasure is his only rule and guide, what safety can there be either for him or against him but in the point of a sword?" - United States Founding Father, A leader of the Sons of Liberty, Mentor of Samuel Adams, James Otis, "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved", (Boston and London: J.Williams and J. Almon, 1766), p. 4

Devine Right of Kings - Government by the People

"Has it [government] any solid foundation? any chief cornerstone ... ? I think it has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God, the Author of Nature whose laws never vary. ... Government ... is by no means an arbitrary thing depending merely on compact or human will for its existence. ... The power of God Almighty is the only power that can porperly and strictly be called supreme and absolute. In the order of nature immediately under Him comes the power of a simple democracy, or the power of the whole over the whole. ... [God is] the only monarch in the universe who has a clear and indisputable right to absolute power because He is the only one who is omniscient as well as omnipotent. ... The sum of my argument is that civil government is of God, that the administrators of it were originally the whole people." - United States Founding Father, A leader of the Sons of Liberty, Mentor of Samuel Adams, James Otis, "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved", (Boston and London: J.Williams and J. Almon, 1766), pp. 11-13, 98

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