"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
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As cited in The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (2007), Alan Greenspan, Penguin Press, Chapter 4 (Private Citizen), p. 87 :
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