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There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.


Brit Hume


#american flag #attitudes #certain #elitism #flag

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.


David Hume


#bad #distinct #float #good #greatest

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.


David Hume


#circumstance #circumstances #excellent #happy #his

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.


David Hume


#contradiction #implies #intelligible #less #more

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.


David Hume


#captivating #desires #eloquence #entirely #hearers

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.


David Hume


#governed #many #more #nothing #surprising

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.


David Hume


#always #commodities #condition #easy #every

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.


David Hume


#establish #fact #falsehood #kind #miracle

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.


David Hume


#principals #result #stereotyped #system

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.


David Hume


#every man #just #knave #man #maxim






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