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The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
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 smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
