Dialogue

 1 Text|        and governed by the best laws. So it is no matter for
 2 Text|  engaged in public affairs, the laws too and the customs, the
 3 Text|     could make new friends. The laws too, written and unwritten,
 4 Text|      all misgoverned. For their laws have got into a state that
 5 Text|       of tranquillity under any laws whatsoever, when men think
 6 Text|         practice my ideas about laws and constitutions, now was
 7 Text|     ought to be; for he drew up laws by which he has secured
 8 Text|       and bind them together by laws and constitutions, so as
 9 Text|       by suitable and excellent laws; and the thing next in order,
10 Text| establishing equality under the laws, summoning them from Sicily
11 Text|         and, enacting impartial laws, framed not to gratify themselves
12 Text|      able to be servants to the laws. There is no other way save
13 Text|         command them to draw up laws after binding themselves
14 Text|        to the whole State.~When laws have been enacted, what
15 Text|      show more obedience to the laws than the conquered, the
16 Text|  composed by anyone, either the laws of a lawgiver, or in any
17 Text|         of the justest and best laws, reaching these ends without