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“There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.”

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The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

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Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

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In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

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Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

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[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There…

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