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"The State, let us never forget, has no resources of its own. It has nothing, it possesses nothing that it does not take from the workers."

— Bastiat, Frédéric event 1848

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"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

— Burke, Edmund event 1790

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"Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. Pity, benevolence, friendship, are things almost unknown in high stations."

— Burke, Edmund event 1756

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"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

— Tocqueville, Alexis de event 1835

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A Vindication of Natural Society

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Burke's first published work, an anonymous satire of Lord Bolingbroke's style that pushes rationalist arguments against organized religion to their...

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