All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.