"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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