And better, on all hands, that peace should rule with a scepter, than than the tribunes of the people should brandish their broadswords.

Better be the subject of a king, upright and just; than a freeman in Franko, with the executioner's ax at every corner.
"It is not the prime end, and chief blessing, to be politically free.
And freedom is only good as a means; is no end in itself Nor, did man fight it out against his masters to the haft, not then, would he uncollar his neck from the yoke.

A born thrall to the last, yelping out his liberty, he still remains a slave unto Oro; and well is it for the universe, that Oro's scepter is absolute.
"World-old the saying, that it is easier to govern others, than oneself.

And that all men should govern themselves as nations, needs that all men be better, and wiser, than the wisest of one-man rulers.
But in no stable democracy do all men govern themselves.

Though an army be all volunteers, martial law must prevail.