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Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
