"Many now believe that with the rise of the totalitarian State the world has entered upon a new era of barbarism. It has not. The totalitarian State is only the State; the kind of thing it does is only what the State has always done with unfailing regularity, if it had the power to do it, wherever and whenever its own aggrandizement made that kind of thing expedient. Give any State like power hereafter, and put it in like circumstances, and it will do precisely the same kind of thing. The State will unfailingly aggrandize itself, if only it has the power, first at the expense of its own citizens, and then at the expense of anyone else in sight. It has always done so, and always will."
-- Albert Jay Nock
(1870-1945)
Source: The Criminality of the State, America Mercury Magazine, March, 1939
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Albert.Jay.Nock.Quote.810C
"English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts."
-- James Anthony Froude
(1818-1894) British author and historian
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects, 1872
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Froude.Quote.0C30
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