What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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.
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment....
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