The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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It is not fools that I seek to address.

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I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

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Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

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When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

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