"All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these."

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Source : "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 8, 1792.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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