When A Government Lasts A Long While,

Liberty Is The Right Of Doing Whatever The Laws Permit.

Human Laws Made To Direct The Will Ought To Give Precepts, And Not Counsels.

But Constant Experience Shows Us That Every Man Invested With Power Is Apt To Abuse It, And To Carry His Authority As Far As It Will Go.

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.

There Is Only One Thing That Can Form A Bond Between Men, And That Is Gratitude... We Cannot Give Someone Else Greater Power Over Us Than We Have Ourselves.