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April 28, 2012
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“A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals‘ rights-which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.” Gerry Spence, lawyer and author, source: Give Me Liberty, 1998

 

“…So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.” Voltaire, François Marie Arouet (1694-1778), Philosophical Dictionary, 1764

 

“All of history attests that the centralization and concentration of power breed despotism.” H.A.Scott Trask
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