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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1844,” Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).

Categories: Essayist, Government, Philosopher

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