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- When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any…
- I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.
- The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no…
- The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely…
- All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is…
- The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
- If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But…
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
- Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
- The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else…
- I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures…
- the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.
- I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen…
- Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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