The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist ... concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties. (Woodrow Wilson)

The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist ... concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

Woodrow Wilson

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