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IA.749.020
3 Apr 1749:11,12 (66)
[Near the end of an essay on the politics of England and
France.]
. . . In this light, I know not so happy an invention to
make men slaves as the term liberty: If a government is
absolute, men must be slaves; if free, they are slaves: The
distinction then is only between must and are. In England,
the subject is at liberty to prate and scribble; in France
to dance and sing. In France, the King commands the
subjects purse; in England the subjects representative gives
it to the King: The difference then is only between the
power of the respective Kings, not in the liberty of the
subject to keep or part with his money . . .
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