“Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.”
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
