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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

— Jim Hightower

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There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (1998)

The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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