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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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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
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 evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
