“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.