“Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.”
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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.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
