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"Firstly, the size of a country causes a corresponding decrease of the political importance allotted to each individual. The most obscure republican of Sparta or Rome had power. The same is not true of the simple citizen of Britain or of the United States. His personal influence is an imperceptible part of the social will that impresses on the government its direction."

–Benjamin Constant, On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns (1819)

#GovtIsTheProblem #Voluntarism #EndTheState

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