Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God! William Tyndale (1492?-1536; English theologian and translator of the Holy Bible; executed for distributing Bibles)

We canNOT suppose that this text [Ed. Note: i.e., I Peter 2:13, 14] enjoins absolute submission to ALL laws that may be made in a land; for some are so wicked, so oppressive, and unjust in their nature and tendency, that the best of men have thought it their indispensable duty to DISOBEY them. David Jones (in a sermon on July 20, 1775)

In the exercise and enjoyment of present blessings we are prone to be oblivious to the history of the past, and it is easy to let slip the great principles by which our privileges were won. The world would be in far worse shape today if, in the years long gone, there had not been men and women willing to die for the purity of simple Biblical truth, especially the business of whether or not a Christian owes unlimited submission to the civil magistrate. The Bible, of course, never teaches that Gods people owe unlimited submission to civil magistrates, even though God Himself has established and ordained the ordinance of civil government. Civil magistrates are to be obeyed only in-so-far as they command that the people obey the laws of God! All of history proves this precept to be correct, and all American preachers who grovel at the feet of the goddess Unlimited Submission should turn their backs on truth and go back to England, begging the Queen to let them and their little Tory congregations set up a colony somewhere on the English Channel. Pastor John Lewis (Preacher; host of the Black Brigade broadcast) (Statement made on June 11, 1990)