"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."

Government, Men, Control, First

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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."

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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."

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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."

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"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

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"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"

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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

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"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

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"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."

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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

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