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Benjamin Franklin Hamilton
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From God in Government
True loyalty implies service. Man, be he peasant, prince, or king, must have a master. However great his powers, there are others greater; however high his authority, it is never the highest. Like the stars, he rules best by obeying; like the moon, he must yield his glory to another, though a sea of applauding humanity follow in his wake. To whom, then, belongs this meed of highest honor? Whence comes the primal right of any to rule? Where rests the ultimate will for all to heed? These are queries as old as history, as intricate as society, as vital as government itself; to the solving of which reason has loaned its bright intuitions, experience has set its lamp of reflection, war has waged its sharp arbitrament. And yet the answers given have been as varied as God in Government. the ends sought or the means employed to reach them.…
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