Thomas Paine
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out. ✨ Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). Paine: Political Writings, p.160, Cambridge University Press

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