God and Government - Gary DeMar

Quotes

…five areas of civil government: “the township or civil district, the village or the city, the county, the State, and the United States.”

Therefore, to see the State as the only governing institution “is destructive of liberty and of life.”

Direction; regulation. “These precepts will serve for the government of our conduct.” Control; restraint. “Men are apt to neglect the government of their temper and passions” –Noah Webster

The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. –Noah Webster

Government, in the older definition, is moral and personal before it is practical and institutional.

Family, church, and civil governments reflect the self-government of the people, whether good or bad […] Leadership, like water, rises to its own level, the righteousness or unrighteousness of the people.

Justice is the end goal of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been ever will be pursued until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.—Alexander Hamilton

If generations continue to be indoctrinated with the modern definition of “government,” they will neglect their own personal, family, church, and local governing duties.