
Essay Fourth, The Principles of the Former Essays Applied to Government
A New View of Society (1813-1816)
Government (1820)
Context: Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.<!-- (1824 edition) vol. 4, p. 493
Essay Fourth, The Principles of the Former Essays Applied to Government
A New View of Society (1813-1816)
Obergefell v. Hodges http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf (26 June 2015), pp. 16-17.
2010s
Part I, Essay 4: Of The First Principles of Government
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
Context: Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg
"Repentance and Impenitence" p. 366
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)
Federalist No. 49 (2 February 1788)
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
2000s, Bush's Lincolnian Challenge (2002)
Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)
Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.15