4th Earl of March

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“Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)