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

- David Hume



Thursday, August 6, 2020

Plato on Trump’s America: a tweet from Hellas

The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Plato, The Republic (c. 370 BC)[1]

 



[1] Plato, The Republic, tr. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg EBook) Book VIII, 564a.


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