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- I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
- Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes…
- Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.…
- The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
- 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,…
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
- One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable…
- Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
- The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
- A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by…
- The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
- Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to…
- The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
- It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve'…
- To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
- There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot…
- In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their…
- What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
- The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is…
- Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for…
- Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
- The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the…
- The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure…
- Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught…
- Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government…
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- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
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