Nowadays, For The Sake Of The Advantage

Self-sufficiency Is Both A Good And An Absolute Good.

Choice Not Chance Determines Your Destiny [my Family Motto...credited To Aristotle]

Those Who Have The Command Of The Arms In A Country Are Masters Of The State, And Have It In Their Power To Make What Revolutions They Please. [thus,] There Is No End To Observations On The Difference Between The Measures Likely To Be Pursued By A Minister Backed By A Standing Army, And Those Of A Court Awed By The Fear Of An Armed People.

What The Statesman Is Most Anxious To Produce Is A Certain Moral Character In His Fellow Citizens, Namely A Disposition To Virtue And The Performance Of Virtuous Actions.

All Flatterers Are Mercenary, And All Low-minded Men Are Flatterers.