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

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

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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

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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.

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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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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

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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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The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

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Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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