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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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Socialism means slavery.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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