"Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other."

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It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.

— Ludwig von Mises