I may venture to affirm, that there is nothing in itself more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
Empiricism, skepticism
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Of the First Principles of Government
1742
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