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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. - Honore de

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. – Honore de Balzac

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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. – Earl Warren

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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. – Otto von Bismarck

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