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Tag: William Godwin

(1756-1836) English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

More government = less humanity

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 5, 2020Categories collectivization, governmentTags William Godwin

“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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