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“President Trump is too set in his ways and independent-minded to imbibe the layers of debased semiotics with which government lawyers routinely rape reality."

— Ilana Mercer

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"The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule."

"If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place."

"Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes."

"In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off."

"Anti-discrimination law is inconsistent with freedom of association and the right of private property."

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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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