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.

If His Majesty Is Resolved To Have My Head, He May Make A Whistle Of My Arse If He Pleases.

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

Many Things Are Unknown To The Wisest, And The Best Men Can Never Wholly Divest Themselves Of Passions And Affections... Nothing Can Or Ought To Be Permanent But That Which Is Perfect.

That Is The Best Government, Which Best Provides For War.