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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift

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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. – Evan Davis

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