Excavations


... nothing is more essential to public interest than the preservation of public liberty.

- David Hume



Monday, February 20, 2017

Mulroney serenades Trump: Gibbon's thoughts

My personal freedom had been somewhat impaired by the House of Commons and the Board of Trade; but I was now delivered from the chain of duty and dependence, from the hopes and fears of political adventure: my sober mind was no longer intoxicated by the fumes of party.

Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796)