"I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy."
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"All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy."
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"To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion."
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"New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me."
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"He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still."
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"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous."
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"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."
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"Without virtue, happiness cannot be."
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"There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them."
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions."
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"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."
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"The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."
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"I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God."
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"The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land."
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"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."
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"What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect."
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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