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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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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.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
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.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
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.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
