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Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On August 22, 2011 @ 8:25 am In Civil Society,Crime,Law | Comments Disabled
… is from page 69 of The Impossible H. L. Mencken [1] (Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, ed., 1991); it originally appeared in Mencken’s 1935 Baltimore Evening Sun essay entitled “The Constitution”:
Every right that anyone has today is based on the doctrine that government is a creature of limited powers, and that the men constituting it become criminals if they venture to exceed those powers.
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