“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a<\/p>\n
superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a<\/p>\n
formidable outcry. But the tumult soon subsides.<\/p>\n
Time makes more converts than reason.<\/p>\n
As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means<\/p>\n
of calling it in question [and in matters too, which might<\/p>\n
never have been thought of, had not the sufferers been<\/p>\n
aggravated into the inquiry.]”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Paine<\/p>\n
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