On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
Confidence can never take place while an hostile disposition remains in either, or where mystery and secrecy on one side is opposed to candour and openness on the other.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “Confidence can never take place while an hostile disposition remains in either, or where mystery and secrecy on one side…”
Editor's note · Context
In "Rights of Man," Paine asserts that mutual confidence is impossible where hostility persists or where secrecy from one party meets openness from another.
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