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Quotation of the Day…

… is from page 51 of Robert Higgs’s 2012 book Delusions of Power:

Whatever promotes the growth of the state also weakens the capacity of individuals in civil society to fend off the state’s depredations and therefore augments the public’s multifaceted victimization at the hands of state functionaries. Nothing promotes the growth of the state as much as national emergency – war and other crises comparable to war in the seriousness of the threats they are believed to pose.