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First Principles: Trust No Living Man With the Power to Endanger Liberty

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”  – John Adams, in an Oration at Braintree (Spring, 1772)     … Continue reading

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