"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Big Business and the Rise of American Statism
""Almost unanimously, it [big business] turned to the power of the state to get what it could not get by voluntary means. Big business acted not only through concrete political pressure, but by engaging in large-scale, long-run ideological propaganda or ?education? aimed at getting different sections of the American society united behind statism, in principle and practice." A must-read by the late Roy A. Childs. (Courtesy of the Molinari Institute.)"
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