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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
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- Milton Friedman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Milton Friedman: life dates 1912 to 2006. Wikidata Q47426, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47426 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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