Quote#Politics & Power
Americans no longer argue on the propriety of making all men…
Quote byFrances Wright · 1795–1852
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Independence Day speech (1828).
English (original)
Americans no longer argue on the propriety of making all men soldiers, in order that their nation may be an object of terror to the rest of the world. They understand that the happiness of a people is the only rational object of a government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
— Frances Wright
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