“On what a slippery slope …international morality reposes.”
J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism
The Morals of Economic Irrationalism (1920), p.6-7
“There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.”
As quoted in The New York Times (26 September 1982).
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