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There are many who have lost faith in this early American ideal and believe in a form of socialistic, totalitarian rule, a sort of big brother deity to run our lives for us. They no longer believe that free men can successfully manage their own affairs. Their thesis is that a handful of men, centered in government, largely bureaucratic not elected, can utilize the proceeds of our toil and labor to greater advantage than those who create it. Nowhere in the history of the human race is there justification for this reckless faith in political power. It is the oldest, most reactionary of all forms of social organization.

— Douglas Macarthur, Reminiscences By Douglas Macarthur, General of the Army - Written in His Own Hand, and Finished Only Weeks Before His Death - With Sections of Black & White Photos - Hardcover First Edition 1964

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