God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
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That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
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Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
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No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
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