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“To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.”

Problem Answers Liberty Cases Fire Mankind Circumstances Offers Solutions Universal Bad Things Irrational Good And Bad

Author:James Fitzjames Stephen

“Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.”

Believe Wells Book Race Mankind Circumstances Creatures Capable Noble Proof

Book:A Book for a Corner

Source: A Book for a Corner

“An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.”

Reason Government Mankind Circumstances Authority Advantage Infinite Antiquity Recommendations

Book:Hume: Political Essays

Source: Hume: Political Essays

“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.”

Ifs Men Religion Mankind Circumstances Fortune Driven Useless Uncertainty Favour Superstitious Credulity Hopes And Fears

Book:A Theologico-Political Treatise

Source: A Theologico-Political Treatise

“Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph”

States Natural Mankind Circumstances Civilization Triumph Unnatural Whim

Author:Robert E. Howard

“Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”

Giving Reality Political Politics Principles Mankind Effects Color Politician Circumstances Schemes Beneficial

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)