“I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the
failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there
will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know
how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums do not swing back
automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people
have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back. A little experience with
federal and state bureaucracies has taught me that such bureaucracies are
inhabited by basically good civil servants, onto whom voters have pushed too
much power for their good or ours.” – Neil A. Maxwell
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