“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.”
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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.
