“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
