"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."
― Milton Friedman
Topic(s):
War
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- "Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."
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More In War
- "Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."― George Orwell
- "My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the ’60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family."― Lisa Bonet
- "There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar."― Christopher Hitchens