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• [L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
• [A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld…
• Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the…
• [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
• If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the…
• Violence and fraud can create no right.
• Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks…
• The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who…
• Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence…
• Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
• God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
• Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

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