When the city-state takes care of its people, when crime is acted on and punished, when grain fills the stores of every town, then the people will be happy. Then the city-state will continue to prosper. But when the city-state fails to do its duty to its people, when responses to storms and fires are sluggish, when plagues sweep the land, when the citizens are starving while the elite eat delicacies, then the people will be angry. Then is their right to revolt.– Historian-General Amesire