"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered."
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"Rather suffer an injustice than commit one."
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"The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."
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"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
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"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn."
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"It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible."
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"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."
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"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism."
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"The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys."
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"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size."
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"Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way."
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"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."
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"I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one."
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"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
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"I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about it? Let's get there!"
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"Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote."
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"I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know."
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