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.

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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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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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I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

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

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

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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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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.

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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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