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Well Read and Dead (A High Society Mystery, #2)

by Catherine O'Connell (Goodreads Author)

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“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

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“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

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“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow

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“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

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