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"Much of the strength and efficiency of any government, in procuring and securing happiness to the people, depends on opinion, on the general opinion of the goodness of that government, as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors."

Peter Shaw, ed., The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin, (New York: Bantam Books, 1982), 252-253.

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