If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long—as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.
Mózes, Cyrus, Theseus és Romulus alkotmányát nem méltányolták vonta sokáig, ha fegyvertelenek; mint ahogy ez napjainkban Girolamo Savonarolával történt, aki új rendjében megbukott, mihelyt a tömeg kezdett neki hitelt nem adni, és ő nem tudta híveit megtartani és a hitetleneket hitre buzdítani.