“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.