February 13, 2025

In framing a government, which is to administered by men, over men, the great difficulty lies in this

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. In other words, people will always say and do what their neighbours say and do, no matter what the law allows or forbids or has nothing to say on a subject.