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    I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

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This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. read more

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China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by read more

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