Government, standing forth prominently as the grandest of all human conceptions and realizations, has in all times been the representative of civilization, and the principal means of its diffusion.
This statement positions government as a fundamental aspect of civilization and its progress.
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The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.
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.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.