When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and …

P. J. O'Rourke
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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2015). Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader, p.694, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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