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Author : Adam Ferguson
: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
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Times may come, when every proprietor must defend his own possessions, and every free people maintain their own independence. We may imagine, that against such an extremity, an army of hired troops is a sufficient precaution; but their own troops are the very enemy against which a people is sometimes obliged to fight.
From : Part 5, Section IV..
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