• Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

    Joseph Addison: Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
    Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.443