“We may lay it down as a rule that the older the exercise of any power, the more benign it will appear, and the more recent its assumption, the more unnatural and even dangerous it will seem.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith, book The New Industrial State

Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter V, Section 4, p. 58 (1985)

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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