We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

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It is not fools that I seek to address.

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I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

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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.

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