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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We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
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As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
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I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
