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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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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
