The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.
The future will be better tomorrow.
The future will be better tomorrow.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.
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The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
