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Brilliant.
(And, yes, that's a real Adam Smith quote, from Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chapter I, Part II.)
(And, yes, that's a real Adam Smith quote, from Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chapter I, Part II.)
"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all." -@AOC
"The rich, in particular, are necessarily interested to support that order of things which can alone secure them in the possession of their own advantages." -@AOC
"The judicial authority of such a sovereign, however, far from being a cause of expense, was for a long time a source of revenue to him. The persons who applied to him for justice were always willing to pay for it, and a present never failed to accompany a petition." -@AOC
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