Ἄριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι.

"I did not "usurp" the crown. I found it, in the gutter, I picked it up with my sword, and it was the people who put it on my head. He who saves a nation violates no law."