Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing mac…

Thomas Carlyle
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (2014). The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.19, Lulu.com
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (2014). The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.19, Lulu.com

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