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“Bascal laughed. "You can't actually believe that, boyo. When was the last no-confidence vote in the Senate? The people of Earth were tired of responsibility; they forced it on my parents, and wouldn't take it back now even if they could.”
― Wil McCarthy, The Wellstone

“It is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05