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The dominant form of government in the world today is dictatorship. Further throughout history, dictatorship has been the commonest form of government, indeed, for much of history the only form of government in the world.

— Gordon Tullock

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What is important will be manipulated by the government.

A government does not, in general, just go about the world doing good. It has to be pushed into it.

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