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"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
-James Madison
In a "perfect" world, there would be no need for a government. Thus the society would be a self-regulating affair that satisfied all the needs of all its members.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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