“That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.”

OK, I like it. I guess that would expose lifer politicians for who they really are. There would be a lot less debt.

I love quotes by this man, He always got it right.

Accurate enough, although "That no government" might be more appropriately stated: 'That no human being ...'

too many ill-defined terms to have any meaning as a valuable quote

Absolutely. This is the very definition of a republican representative government with the individual sovereigns at the top, not the bottom.