"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
Civil Liberties
"Government power grows in soil seeded by crisis. Real, imagined, and conjured threats—domestic and foreign, economic, political, and military—are readily used to justify government responses “requiring” changes in established institutions and limits on traditional freedoms. Civil liberties have been the first casualties of responses to crises."
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