Government, today, is growing too strong to be safe.
There are no longer any citizens in the world; there are only
subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters;
they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this
working and dying they tend to get less and less.
-- H.L. Mencken
There are no longer any citizens in the world; there are only
subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters;
they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this
working and dying they tend to get less and less.
-- H.L. Mencken
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