David Hume — "I may venture to affirm, that there is nothing in itself more surprising than th…"

I may venture to affirm, that there is nothing in itself more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
David Hume — David Hume Early Modern · Empiricism, skepticism

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Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Of the First Principles of Government

Date: 1742

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