"Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous."

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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

— John Locke