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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
The disastrous influence which popular authority may sometimes exercise upon the finances of a State was very clearly seen in some of the democratic republics of antiquity, in which the public treasure was exhausted in order to relieve indigent citizens, or to supply the games and theatrical amusements of the populace.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
So to protect you from the crime syndicates, the government makes you pay tribute for the privileges of working, going into business, or staying on your own property. It dictates the terms of your relationships with customers and friends. It finances your competitors with your money. And it can even enslave you in its army. What could the Mafia do
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
it is embarrassing to reckon the huge gap between our pro-free-market rhetoric around the world and the actual market of government regulation of food production we’ve produced here at home.
Lawrence Lessig • Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
- Nothing is free. To acquire anything requires an expenditure of time, energy, or money. (Not even natural resources can be used without an application of effort — whether that be cutting down a tree or picking up an apple.) 2. Anything you want that you can’t provide entirely for yourself requires an exchange with someone else. 3. A one-sided trans