If His Majesty Is Resolved

[i]f Vice And Corruption Prevail, Liberty Cannot Subsist; But If Virtue Have The Advantage, Arbitrary Power Cannot Be Established.

It Is Not Necessary To Light A Candle To The Sun

[a]ll Popular And Well-mixed Governments [republics] . . . Are Ever Established By Wise And Good Men, And Can Never Be Upheld Otherwise Than By Virtue: The Worst Men Always Conspiring Against Them, They Must Fall, If The Best Have Not Power To Preserve Them. . . . [and] Unless They Be Preserved In A Great Measure Free From Vices . . . .

Everyone Sees They Cannot Well Live Asunder, Nor Many Together, Without Some Rule To Which All Must Submit.

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.