No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society. β¨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus, p.260, Cambridge University Press
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