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

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

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

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

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When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

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

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