Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.
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It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Society is at odds with itself.
But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
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