A Quote by Samuel Richardson
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
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This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.
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