Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VI, The Third Image, p. 163
“The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.”
Chapter X, Part I http://books.google.com/books?id=QItKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+world+neither+ever+saw+nor+ever+will+see+a+perfectly+fair+lottery%22&pg=PA76#v=onepage.
(1776), Book I
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