Who Will Wear A Shoe

[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 . . . .

For Violence Or Fraud Can Create No Right.

Swords Were Given To Men, That None Might Be Slaves, But Such As Know Not How To Use Them.

Who Will Wear A Shoe That Hurts Him, Because The Shoe-maker Tells Him 'tis Well Made?

If The Public Safety Be Provided, Liberty And Propriety Secured, Justice Administered, Virtue Encouraged, Vice Suppressed, And The True Interest Of The Nation Advanced, The Ends Of Government Are Accomplished . . .