“Everywhere, men resign themselves to the most extreme sacrifices rather than do without government and hence security, without realizing that in so doing, they misjudge their alternatives.”
Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 20
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“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“If you despise habits so much, it is because you do not realize that nobody can do without them.”
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Letter to David Hartley (2 July 1787) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-11-02-0441
1780s
Context: I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Could the contrary of this be proved, I should conclude either that there is no god, or that he is a malevolent being.
“I only want the government to do the things that you can't do without the government.”
Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 328
1950s, Television interview with Mike Wallace (1960)
Source: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 10 (p. 168)
