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The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

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A certain immense aggregate of operations, is subservient to the production of the commodities useful and agreeable to man.

Elements of Political Economy (1821)

He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.

The distinction, between what is done by labour, and what is done by nature, is not always observed.

Elements of Political Economy (1821)

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

Government (1820)

No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.

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