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The problem of governments

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 28, 2020Categories governmentTags Thomas Paine

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“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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