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8:40 AM, Mar 9, 2009 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

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Irving Kristol, in his essay "Utopianism, Ancient and Modern":

"A people who have mortgaged themselves to the hilt are a dependent people, and ultimately they will look to the state to save them from bankruptcy."

First published in 1973.

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