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“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”
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“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
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“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”
― The Constitution of Liberty
― The Constitution of Liberty
“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, 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. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
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