[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.147, Vintage
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