Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Wherever the power that is put in any hands for the government of the people and the preservation of their properties is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the arbitrary and irregular commands of those that have it, there it presentl becomes tyranny.
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The power of the community over the individual is never absolute.
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