As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.