Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sediti...on? all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in govern...ment, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it is... necessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »