The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.
— William Henry Chamberlin
- William Henry Chamberlin, 1897-1969
Library of Liberty - William Henry Chamberlin
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by William Henry Chamberlin
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by William Henry Chamberlin
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