And Having Looked To Government For Bread, On The Very First Scarcity They Will Turn And Bite The Hand That Fed Them.

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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity
they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- Reflections on the Revolution in France,
-- Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Vol. v, p. 156

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