For Violence Or Fraud Can Create No

The Only Ends For Which Governments Are Constituted, And Obedience Rendered To Them, Are The Obtaining Of And Protection; And They Who Cannot Provide For Both Give The People A Right Of Taking Such Ways As Best Please Themselves, In Order To Their Own Safety.

If His Majesty Is Resolved To Have My Head, He May Make A Whistle Of My Arse If He Pleases.

Men Lived Like Fishes; The Great Ones Devoured The Small.

[i]f Vice And Corruption Prevail, Liberty Cannot Subsist; But If Virtue Have The Advantage, Arbitrary Power Cannot Be Established.

Machiavel, Discoursing On These Matters, Finds Virtue To Be So Essentially Necessary To The Establishment And Preservation Of Liberty, That He Thinks It Impossible For A Corrupted People To Set Up A Good Government, Or For A Tyranny To Be Introduced If They Be Virtuous; And Makes This Conclusion, 'that Where The Matter (that Is, The Body Of The People) Is Not Corrupted, Tumults And Disorders Do Not Hurt; And Where It Is Corrupted, Good Laws Do No Good:' Which Being Confirmed By Reason And Experience, I Think No Wise Man Has Ever Contradicted Him.