“The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.”
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The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
