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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 10, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags Walter Lippmann

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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