The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
Individuality is freedom lived.
Individuality is freedom lived.
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The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
