"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble."
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Cicero, as quoted by Tedd Adamovich The Price of Liberty: Benjamin Franklin Wept (AuthorHouse, 2000), p. 209
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