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• a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question
• To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession;
• a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But
• Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness;
• Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for