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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of…
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,…
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers…
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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does…
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to…
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What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes…
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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a…
— Giacomo Casanova
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But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to…
— Ayn Rand
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A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what…
— John of Salisbury
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows…
— Anzia Yezierska
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It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of…
— Pope Pius IX
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and…
— Anzia Yezierska
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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
— Aristotle
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A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man…
— Langston Hughes
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
— Epictetus
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Every virtuous man is free.
— Philo
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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and…
— Margaret Thatcher
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