... any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people. (Vince Flynn)

... any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Vince Flynn

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