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" Governments, 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 of Pennsylvania
From The Founders' Constitution
University of Chicago Press
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