The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

Extremes are dangerous.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.