Authority Quote by John Winthrop

“Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.”

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For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.

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A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

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The eyes of all people are upon us.

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A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

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We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes…

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