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(1968-) American journalist, author, Senior Editor at Reason magazine

Act in haste, repent in leisure

It’s never more important to move slowly and carefully before granting the state new powers than in the wake of tragedies.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 12, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Brian Doherty

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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