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C.-F. Volney

Can liberty be born from the bosom of despots? and shall justice be rendered by the hands of piracy and avarice?

Constantin-​François de Chassebœuf (1757 – 1820), Comte de Volney, The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And The Law of Nature, Chapter II (Thomas Jefferson, translator).

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