“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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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
