That Is The Best Government, Which Best

[i]f Vice And Corruption Prevail, Liberty Cannot Subsist; But If Virtue Have The Advantage, Arbitrary Power Cannot Be Established.

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.

No Right Can Come By Conquest, Unless There Were A Right Of Making That Conquest.

Fruits Are Always Of The Same Nature With The Seeds And Roots From Which They Come, And Trees Are Known By The Fruits They Bear: As A Man Begets A Man, And A Beast A Beast, That Society Of Men Which Constitutes A Government Upon The Foundation Of Justice, Virtue, And The Common Good, Will Always Have Men To Promote Those Ends; And That Which Intends The Advancement Of One Man's Desire And Vanity, Will Abound In Those That Will Foment Them.

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