“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
