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Extensive conquests, when pursued, must be the ruin of every free government

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Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor. David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that shaped modern Thought, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017 circa 1751

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David Hume

Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)

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