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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.

God Leaves To Man The Choice Of Forms In Government; And Those Who Constitute One Form, May Abrogate It.

No Right Can Come By Conquest, Unless There Were A Right Of Making That Conquest.

I Will Believe In The Right Of One Man To Govern A Nation Despotically When I Find A Man Born Unto The World With Boots And Spurs, And A Nation With Saddles On Their Backs.

There May Be A Hundred Thousand Men In An Army, Who Are All Equally Free; But They Only Are Naturally Most Fit To Be Commanders Or Leaders, Who Most Excel In The Virtues Required For The Right Performance Of Those Offices.