The State, In Choosing Men To Serve

He Who Stops Being Better Stops Being Good.

Who Can Love To Walk In The Dark? But Providence Doth Often So Dispose.

Because I Fear God, I Have No Man To Fear.

Mr. Lely, I Desire You Would Use All Your Skill To Paint My Picture Truly Like Me, And Not Flatter Me At All; But Remark All These Roughnesses, Pimples, Warts, And Everything As You See Me, Otherwise I Will Never Pay A Farthing For It.

There Are Some Things In This Establishment That Are Fundamental... About Which I Shall Deal Plainly With You... The Government By A Single Person And A Parliament Is A Fundamental... And... Though I May Seem To Plead For Myself, Yet I Do Not: No, Nor Can Any Reasonable Man Say It... I Plead For This Nation, And All The Honest Men Therein.