"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

--Ayn Rand (Alice O'Connor, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982)

The Nature of Government, 1 March 1964