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As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the read more
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.
Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.
Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really read more
Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was read more
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying read more
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
...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.
Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and read more
Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
