The Ruin of Liberty

  • Disorders and miseries . . . gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual who turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty and thus to create whatever the form of Government, a real despotism ~George Washington
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