• Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

    Walt Whitman: Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
    Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated