"Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, 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."
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David Hume, “Of the First Principles of Government,” in Essays, Literary, Moral and Political, p. 32
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