David Hume Quotes
Without money no alliance can be executed.
David Hume, 1711-1776, Scottish Philosopher & Historian, The Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth, 1754
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In 1927 Astor with other wealthy Americans (including Kermit Roosevelt, Marshall Field III, David Bruce and Winthrop Aldrich) founded their own private espionage agency, ROOM, which was utilized heavily by FDR:
See {634641} for Norquist’s quote.
In Lincoln’s age there was a serious ethical debate as to whether it was right for a candidate to use any money at all in a campaign regardless of source.
David Hume, Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as a British Empiricist.