Nor longer stultify yourselves by setting at nought the practical principle of the Fathers, that all just government stands only on the consent of the governed, and its inseparable corollary, that taxation without representation is tyranny.
This quote underscores the foundational principle that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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