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We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our read more
We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.
...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.
...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic read more
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We read more
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
