"When a government becomes powerful it is destructive,……" — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself."

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