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Liberty is the perfection of civil society, but authority is essential to its existence
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- David Hume Scottish philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment (1711 to 1776)
In this sense, it must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence: and in those contests which so often take place between the one and the other, the latter may, on that account, challenge the preference.
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↗Essays, Moral and Political (selection; 1741-1776)gutenberg.org
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