Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Empiricism, skepticism
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Empiricism, skepticism
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Of the First Principles of Government
1742
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