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Those who argue for "less government" are really arguing for a different government—often one that favors them or their patrons.

— Robert Reich Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)

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Please, for the love of god, do not rush an unsafe vaccine for political purposes.

Racism is used by those with wealth and power to divide those with neither, so they won’t see where all the wealth and power have gone.

Every company in America should require all workers to be vaccinated, period.

A minimal guarantee with regards to income seems to me as almost inevitable.

As the pandemic surges back, Trump and his lackeys have

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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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