“If one takes the thought into one's head that the leaders of the people do not receive their inspirations directly from providence itself, that they obey purely human impulses, the prestige that surrounds them will disappear. One will irreverently resist their sovereign decisions, as one resists anything man-made whose utility has not been clearly demonstrated.”

—  Gustave de Molinari

Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 44-45

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Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist 1819–1912

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