Before all else, be armed.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.