“Good-bye to you too ol' Rights of Man!”
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“The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.”
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1920-1936), p. 279
1920s
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