Quote #19

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

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  4. War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections.
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