From the twelfth to the eighteenth century governmental authority grew continuously. The process was understood by all who saw it happening; it stirred them to incessant protest and violent reaction. In later times its growth has continued at an accelerated pace….And now we no longer understand the process, we no longer protest, we no longer [...]
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“Dangers To A Society May Be Mortal Without Being Immediate”
Thomas Sowell Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy “Dangers to a society may be mortal without being immediate. One such danger is the prevailing social vision of our time – and the dogmatism with which the ideas, assumptions, and attitudes behind that vision are held.” Those two poignant sentences were published over [...]
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