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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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The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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.
