John Jay

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• Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.
  • Letter to John Murray (1816-10-12) http://books.google.com/books?id=V50EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA376&dq=%22Providence+has+given+to+our+people+the+choice+of+their+rulers%22&ei=ePMHR5LDMZXC7AKArImDAg&hl=en
• The people who own the country ought to govern it.
  • http://books.google.ca/books?id=kA4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA151&lpg=RA1-PA151&dq=%22those+who+own+the+country+ought+to+govern+it%22&source=web&ots=gFPszFlhT9&sig=AOA39hEJzCj8ID8FrngYuekDI1I&hl=en

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• No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

• Only one adequate plan has ever appeared in the world, and that is the Christian dispensation.