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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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Oppression makes a poor country.

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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

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