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Quote from Cato,


"I must own, I know not what Treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason, in the eternal and original Nature of Things."


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Cato (more quotes by Cato or books by/about Cato)


John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)

Source:

Reflections upon Libelling, June 10, 1721. Ref: Cato's Letters; or Essays on liberty, pg 249. (1737)
http://books.google.com/books?id=QYgDAAAAQAAJ&dq=Cato's%20Letters&pg=PA249#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Liberty, Servitude, Treason, Usurpation

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