The right of our servants to leave us at pleasure, which could not of course be done without violence, on both sides, implies the right of insurrection.

It is impossible to define the cases in which insurrection is justifiable, but the general rule is that it is wrong.

Government is a divine ordinance; men cannot capriciously overthrow or change it, at every turn of affairs which proves burdensome or even oppressive.

God is jealous to maintain human government as an important element in his own administration.

Men justly in authority, or established in it by time, or by consent, or by necessity, or by expediency, may properly feel that they are God's vicegerents.