If His Majesty Is Resolved To Have

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.

If The Public Safety Be Provided, Liberty And Propriety Secured, Justice Administered, Virtue Encouraged, Vice Suppressed, And The True Interest Of The Nation Advanced, The Ends Of Government Are Accomplished . . .

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

Tis Hard To Comprehend How One Man Can Come To Be Master Of Many, Equal To Himself In Right, Unless It Be By Consent Or By Force.

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