"Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble."
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"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."
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"With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself."
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"Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?"
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"We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients."
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"Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
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"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."
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"...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of."
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"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient."
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"I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent."
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"This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower."
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"A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats."
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"They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men."
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"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."
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"I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity."
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"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."
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"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
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"Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police."
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"The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life."
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"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse."
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