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“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
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“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
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“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
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“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― 1984
― 1984
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