The bigger the government, the more the corruption. It's almost never mentioned, and it might be the biggest of the ten principles that I am speaking ofDo you know who has created the greatest evils of history? Big governments. Big SECULAR governments. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, all big States. Why would anybody trust the big state? It's amazing how many callers have imbued the college message that more people have been killed by religion than anything else in history. NO. More people have been killed by governments than anything else in history.and just in the 20th century alone, and none of them were religious. You don't learn THAT in college.
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Dennis Prager was a contemporary American conservative activist. Dennis Mark Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show. Read more on Wikipedia →

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