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2006 April 28
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"I cannot undertake to lay my finger
on that article of the Constitution
which granted a right to Congress of expending,
on the objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents." |
"The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor." |
"When a government controls both
the economic power of individuals
and the coercive power of the state ...
this violates a fundamental rule of happy living:
Never let the people with all the money and
the people with all the guns be the same people." |
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2006 April 27
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"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them." |
"To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility." |
"Socialism means equality of income or nothing...
under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught,
and employed whether you like it or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character
enough to be worth all this trouble,
you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner;
but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well." |
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2006 April 26
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"The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous." |
"The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire." |
"And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse --
the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization
that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist." |
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2006 April 25
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"Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes." |
"If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves." |
"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel." |
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2006 April 24
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"When freedom prevails,
the ingenuity and inventiveness
of people creates incredible wealth.
This is the source
of the natural improvement
of the human condition." |
"Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship
with the rich culture they’ve created.
They buy, watch and read it
even as they ban, block and condemn it." |
"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses." |
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