"Government was intended to suppress injustice, but it offers new occasions and temptations for the commission of it" — English journalist, political philosopher and historian William Godwin (1756-1836), husband to Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley. He also wrote, "Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility."
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