That Which Is Not Just, Is Not

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

Who Will Wear A Shoe That Hurts Him, Because The Shoe-maker Tells Him 'tis Well Made?

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

[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 . . . .

For Violence Or Fraud Can Create No Right.