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

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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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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.

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

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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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