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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Thomas Carlyle
Government, Liberty, Machines
Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19, Lulu.com
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.