“With regard to politics and the character of princes and gre…”

“With regard to politics and the character of princes and great men, I think I am very moderate. My views of things are more conformable to Whig principles; my representation of persons to Tory prejudices. Nothing can so much prove that men commonly regard more persons than things, as to find that I am commonly numbered among the Tories.”

— David Hume

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Context

E. C. Mossner, Life of David Hume (Clarendon Press, 2001), p. 311.

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