“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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American libertarian businessman 1911–1986

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