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Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy. - Aesop Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis D. Brandeis, part of his dissent in the case of Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928) The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls. - Thomas Carlyle Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope. - Mick Jagger In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right. - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. - John Milton Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. - Benito Mussolini Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you. - George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance If the emperor and the palace officials cannot get along well, the country will surely come to extinction. - Su Shi
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