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Quotes from Government — James Mill

1773–1836 Scotland

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The end of Government has been described in a great variety of expressions.

Government (1820)

Of the laws of nature on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasures.

Government (1820)

These, and equivalent expressions, are just ; they are only defective, inasmuch as the particular ideas which they embrace are indistinctly announced; and different combinations are by means of them raised indifferent minds, and even in the same mind on different occasions.

Government (1820)

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