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National security is about keeping illegal conduct concealed from the American public until you're forced to justify it because someone ratted you out.
Joshua Dratel
Owing to technological developments and changes in the political environment, power -- defined crudely as the capacity to kill, destroy, disrupt, cause alarm, and compel society to divert vast resources to security -- is coming into the hands of smaller and smaller groups whose grievances, real or imaginary, it would not always be possible to satisfy. How democracies deal with this, and remain democracies, is one of the major challenges we face in the late twentieth century.
Brian Jenkins
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
John Dalberg Lord Acton
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