In all forms of Government the people is the true legislator. A Tract on the Popery Laws ch. 1 in The Works vol. All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Wisdom say another.
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. The silent touches of time. Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. His virtues were his arts.