Liars need to have good memories.
From Algernon Sidney
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
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.
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
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