"Many regulations primarily protect the past, prop up privilege or prevent sensible economic choices."

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"Had Japan been a tenth as wise as Abraham Lincoln, had Hitler been a hundredth part as sensible, we today, the United States and England, would not have a chance in this war. Had those two enemies of …"

— Pearl S. Buck

Literature1892–1973

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"You ask what I am for and what I am against in Spain. I would give my right hand of course to prevent the agony; I would not give a flick of my little finger to help either side win."

— Robinson Jeffers

Literature1887–1962

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