Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or pr...
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A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, t...
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
