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Quote from Thomas Erskine,


"When men can freely communicate their thoughts and their sufferings, real or imagined, their passions spend themselves in air, like gunpowder scattered upon the surface – but pent up by terrors, they work unseen, burst forth in a moment, and destroy everything in its course. Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument, and every good government will be safe."


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Thomas Erskine (more quotes by Thomas Erskine or books by/about Thomas Erskine)


(1750-1823) Lord Chancellor of England

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