It Is Requisite The Government Be So

The Harshest Tyranny Is That Which Acts Under The Protection Of Legality And The Banner Of Justice.

I Never Listen To Calumnies, Because If They Are Untrue I Run The Risk Of Being Deceived, And If They Be True, Of Hating Persons Not Worth Thinking About.

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

No Tyranny Is More Cruel Than The One Practised In The Shadow Of The Laws And Under Color Of Justice - When, So To Speak, One Proceeds To Drown The Unfortunate On The Very Plank By Which They Had Saved Themselves. And Since A Tyrant Never Lacks Instruments For His Tyranny, Tiberius Always Found Judges Ready To Condemn As Many People As He Might Suspect.

There Are Only Two Cases In Which War Is Just: First, In Order To Resist The Aggression Of An Enemy, And Second, In Order To Help An Ally Who Has Been Attacked.