"Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all."

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other."

"And consequently, where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice."

"For the nature of man is such, that if they be not restrained by fear of punishment, they will choose to do that which is most for their own advantage."

"For it is not the bare receiving of a man's message, that makes him an ambassador, but the accepting of his person."