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.
James Harrington
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.
James Harrington
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
James Harrington
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
James Harrington
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