The power is the government; the operatives its administrators; the various pieces and parts of the machinery are the people working in the several parts of the process; the cloth is the attained civilization, while the different degrees of fineness are its progressive steps.
This quote metaphorically describes the relationship between government, its people, and the resulting civilization as a process of collective effort and progress.
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Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.
To begin a work right, is to have it half accomplished; and most powerfully does this apply in the matter of determining who shall be your representatives.
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
A fact isolated from all connections loses its significance.