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“The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.”

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Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.”

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Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”

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Author:Robert Peel