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  • Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

    William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.230