"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated."
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Source: George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.116, Transaction Publishers
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