But it must be remembered that such sentiments, from their very universality and evident Laudableness, need correctives, for they bear in themselves a great danger of excess or of precipitancy.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
That so acute a head as Hume's should have failed to perceive these very plain considerations, and that he should moreover have perpetrated the absurdity of declaring the right of resistance, in the same breath in which he declares the Laudableness of keeping it a secret, only allows how carefully a man need steer after he has once involved himself in the labyrinths of Economy.
"On Compromise"
John Morley