“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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.
