The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.
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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.
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It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to read more
It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
