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Alexander Shields on Power

1661–1700 Scotland

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Magistrates in some acts may be guilty of tyranny, and yet retain the power of magistracy; but tyrants cannot be capable of magistracy, nor any one of the scripture-characters of righteous rulers. They cannot retain that which they have forfeited, and which they have overturned; and usurpers cannot retain that which they never had.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Shields (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.