They thought man was a creature of rapacious.... : Quote by Richard Hofstadter

“ They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property. ”

Richard Hofstadter
  • From : The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
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