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Kneeling Before Leviathan: The Rise of the Administrative State

By Troy Senik
Thursday, August 22 2013

When it comes to conservative bon mots, former President Gerald Ford isn’t usually thought of as one of the more quotable figures on the right. He is responsible, however, for one aphorism that is uniquely relevant to today’s era of the expanding, unresponsive state: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” Ford was right, of course. There is no such thing as a purely benevolent expansion of government. Even in the rare cases where the state grows larger in order to perform some necessary…

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