DUE REGARD

Daily Philosophical Quotation (28 Jun 2003)

Licentiousness, or rather the frenzy of liberty, has taken possession of us, and is throwing everything into confusion. How happy do I esteem it, that in all my writings I have always kept at a proper distance from that tempting extreme, and have maintained a due regard to magistracy and established government, suitably to the character of an historian and a philosopher!

-David Hume, Letters Posted by Orrin Judd at June 28, 2003 8:39 AM