Liars Need To Have Good Memories.

Machiavel, Discoursing On These Matters, Finds Virtue To Be So Essentially Necessary To The Establishment And Preservation Of Liberty, That He Thinks It Impossible For A Corrupted People To Set Up A Good Government, Or For A Tyranny To Be Introduced If They Be Virtuous; And Makes This Conclusion, 'that Where The Matter (that Is, The Body Of The People) Is Not Corrupted, Tumults And Disorders Do Not Hurt; And Where It Is Corrupted, Good Laws Do No Good:' Which Being Confirmed By Reason And Experience, I Think No Wise Man Has Ever Contradicted Him.

It Is Not Necessary To Light A Candle To The Sun

Tis Hard To Comprehend How One Man Can Come To Be Master Of Many, Equal To Himself In Right, Unless It Be By Consent Or By Force.

The Only Ends For Which Governments Are Constituted, And Obedience Rendered To Them, Are The Obtaining Of And Protection; And They Who Cannot Provide For Both Give The People A Right Of Taking Such Ways As Best Please Themselves, In Order To Their Own Safety.

Nay, All Laws Must Fall, Human Societies That Subsist By Them Be Dissolved, And All Innocent Persons Be Exposed To The Violence Of The Most Wicked, If Men Might Not Justly Defend Themselves Against Injustice By Their Own Natural Right, When The Ways Prescribed By Publick Authority Cannot Be Taken.