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• The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson
• Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and… — Tim Field
• This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson
• We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all… — Thomas Jefferson
• The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.… — George Bernard Shaw
• The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to… — Edward Abbey
• The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt
• It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to… — Herman Melville

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