"Liberty is a word which, according as it is
used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly
understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration;
but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary
government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep
society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote
good."
--Oliver
Ellsworth, A Landholder, No. III, 1787
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