“The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.”

—  Alan Keyes

Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_03_08utah.htm.
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