“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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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
A government of laws, and not of men.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
