"We are not punished for our sins, but by them."
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"The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom..."
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"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us."
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"It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something."
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"Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim."
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"Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone"
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"I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing."
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"My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian."
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"When taxes are too high, people go hungry."
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"We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect."
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"There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word "democracy" - recall that they called what they'd constructed "peoples' democracies." The weird offshoot of ultra-right individualist anarchism that is called "libertarian" here happens to amount to advocacy of perhaps the worst kind of imaginable tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny. If they want to call that "libertarian," fine; after all, Stalin called his system "democratic." But why bother arguing about it?"
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"If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it."
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"'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it."
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"I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them."
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"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."
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"Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge."
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"Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence."
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"In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological."
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"Make us your slaves, but feed us."
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"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so."
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