The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. - John Stuart Mill

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

Everyone who receives protection from the society owes a return for the benefit.

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.