Dependence | CM 20th 11
Dependence
" G
overnments, like clocks,
go from the motion men
give them, and as governments
are made and moved by men,
so by them they are ruined
too. Wherefore governments
rather depend upon men than
men upon governments. Let men
be good, and the government
cannot be bad; if it be ill, they
will cure it. But if men be bad,
let the government be never so
good, they will endeavour to
warp and spoil to their turn."
William Penn
founder of the colony
(now the state) of
Pennsylvania. From The
Founders' Cons tu on,
The University of
Chicago Press.
