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I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves
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I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long in freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Why do they expect virtue from a slave, or from a being whom the constitution of civil society has rendered weak, if not vicious?
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