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• ‟ Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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• ‟ Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

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• ‟ Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

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• ‟ When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

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• ‟ There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

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• ‟ In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

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