There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

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The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

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

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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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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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It is not fools that I seek to address.

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