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"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
--Daniel Webster, US diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852)

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We have voted for tyranny in the name of safety, bread and circus.

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The politician knows that if men are given freedom they would do what he would do and so men must be constrained. - Frank Zeleniuk.

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