Liars need to have good memories.

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

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .

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

For violence or fraud can create no right.

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.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.