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2026 September 02
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"The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country." |
"... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled." |
"Liberty requires restraints on popularly-elected leaders, as well as from minorities, so that the individual is protected from undue and arbitrary coercion by the state. These restraints are provided by a plurality of more or less equal and independent groups which check and balance one another's power." |
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2026 September 01
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"What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others." |
"A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties." |
"Charity begins at home." |
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2026 August 31
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"Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual … who … can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government." |
"The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man’s innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions." |
"Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency." |
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