Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Establish…

Mark Twain
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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition. ✨ Mark Twain (1889). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, p.142, Createspace Independent Pub
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