Blaise Pascal on Nostr: "How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and ...
"How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism."
-- James Monroe
(1758-1831), 5th US President
1788
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