“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.”
Financial Sense http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/steer/2007/0805.html Also quoted in “Covert Operation”, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, (Aug. 30, 2010)
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7:87
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