“If people are capable of committing evil deeds, then the people occupying the offices of government will be cut from the same cloth. They are evildoers, too. There is not a single shred of evidence that they will be otherwise.”

Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume II, (1999), p. 487

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