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Frederic Bastiat Quotes: People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.
         

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.


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