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"Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now."
"Man is not free unless government is limited."
"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."
"No nation was ever ruined by trade."
"There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them."
"The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
"I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian."
"You cannot help small men by tearing down big men."
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
"Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power."
"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us."
"To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods."
"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag."
"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."
"The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
"I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style."
"For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade."
"If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public."
". . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . ."
