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- David Hume



Sunday, August 5, 2018

Zero tolerance for Trump’s separation of families


… any State interference in private affairs, where there is no immediate reference to violence done to individual rights, should be absolutely condemned.[1]

Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action, 1792.



[1] See Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action, ed. and tr. J.W. Burrow (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1993), p. 16.

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