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Setting up a government3 quotes
In contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest. — David Hume · 1741Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton · 1787Political theory2 quotes
Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton · 1787Democracy1 quote
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton · 1787Government1 quote
Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618Safeguards of freedom1 quote
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton · 1787