<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The machinery of government and its war apparatus... > {{The machinery of government and its war apparatus acts as a double-edged blade, with one side sharpened for outer enemies and the other honed for inner enemies.}} {{The government holds its self-preservation as its highest imperative.}} The system loves to make public examples out of so-called "troublemakers" to teach everyone important lessons. A personified system can almost be seen sneering at its subjects and ordering them to keep their heads down, and to not make eye contact, or else! But {{we must look intimidation in the eye, and stand defiantly against what we know is not just.}} {{Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation.}} **Source:** [[books/Voice of Reason Book (2009-2012)|Voice of Reason]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->