Power Ought To Serve As A Check

Ever Since The Invention Of Gunpowder.. I Continually Tremble Lest Men Should, In The End, Uncover Some Secret Which Would Provide A Short Way Of Abolishing Mankind, Of Annihilating Peoples And Nations In Their Entirety.

Power Should Be A Check On Power.

Each Particular Society Begins To Feel Its Strength, Whence Arises A State Of War Between Different Nations.

This Punishment Of Death Is The Remedy, As It Were, Of A Sick Society.

I Have Ever Held It As A Maxim Never To Do That Through Another Which It Was Impossible For Me To Execute Myself