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(86 BC – 34 BC), Roman historian and politician

Slavery for the masses

Few men desire liberty, for it requires personal responsibility. The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 27, 2020Categories libertyTags Sallust

“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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