Excavations


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

- David Hume



Monday, October 10, 2016

Trump's Temperament

... neither … moderated by reason nor fixed by faith.[1]




[1] Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ed. and Abridged Hans-Friedrich Mueller (New York: The Modern Library, 2003), p. 414, (Chapter XXI).  Here Gibbon is speaking of Emperor Constantine’s son Constantius.

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