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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
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The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
