That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

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?

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.