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We believe that social organization provides for the reciprocal restraint of human individuals by one another and so makes them better, not by destroying their wicked instincts, but by accustoming them to controlling their wicked instincts.” (Pp. 126-7.) “Guicciardini defines political liberty as ‘a prevalence of law and public decrees over the appetites of particular men.’
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
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