“The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.”

If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.

If a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

One cannot govern with ‘buts’.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.