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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

Adam Smith

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Adam Smith

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

June 5th, 1723 - July 17th, 1790

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