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The Founders Warned Us

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The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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All governments suffer a recurring problem:  Power attracts pathological personalities.  It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.  -Frank Herbert, Dune