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“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”

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“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”

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“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

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“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

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“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”

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“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”

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“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

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“The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.”

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“America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes”

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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”

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“Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”

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