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(1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, historian and economist

Gradual losses

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 23, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags David Hume

“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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