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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
