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The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.