For Violence Or Fraud Can Create No

That Which Is Not Just, Is Not Law; And That Which Is Not Law, Ought Not To Be Obeyed.

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.

Everyone Sees They Cannot Well Live Asunder, Nor Many Together, Without Some Rule To Which All Must Submit.

Who Will Wear A Shoe That Hurts Him, Because The Shoe-maker Tells Him 'tis Well Made?

I Will Believe In The Right Of One Man To Govern A Nation Despotically When I Find A Man Born Unto The World With Boots And Spurs, And A Nation With Saddles On Their Backs.