No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
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No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
