Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar International, 1991.
-- David Hume, (May 7 1711-1776), Scottish philosopher, historian; He was a philosophical skeptic who influenced metaphysical thought; wrote History of England, 1754-62.