Men Lived Like Fishes; The Great Ones

[a]ll Popular And Well-mixed Governments [republics] . . . Are Ever Established By Wise And Good Men, And Can Never Be Upheld Otherwise Than By Virtue: The Worst Men Always Conspiring Against Them, They Must Fall, If The Best Have Not Power To Preserve Them. . . . [and] Unless They Be Preserved In A Great Measure Free From Vices . . . .

There May Be A Hundred Thousand Men In An Army, Who Are All Equally Free; But They Only Are Naturally Most Fit To Be Commanders Or Leaders, Who Most Excel In The Virtues Required For The Right Performance Of Those Offices.

That Is The Best Government, Which Best Provides For War.

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

Swords Were Given To Men, That None Might Be Slaves, But Such As Know Not How To Use Them.