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Quote from Benjamin Franklin Bache,

"All governments are more or less combinations against the people...and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled...the power of government can only be kept within its constituted bounds by the display of a power equal to itself, the collected sentiment of the people."



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Benjamin Franklin Bache (more quotes by Benjamin Franklin Bache or books by/about Benjamin Franklin Bache)


(1769-1798) American journalist, printer and publisher, founded the Philadephia Aurora, grandson of Benjamin Franklin

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Philadelphia Aurora, 1794

Categories:

Government, Politics, Power

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