God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

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.

[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 . . . .

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

Liars need to have good memories.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.