There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
Towns were the nursery of freedom.
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.