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The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.


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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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What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.



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There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.



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There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'



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There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.



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Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.



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The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.



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The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.





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