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@liberty-quotes Oct 19, 2018, 1:11 PM UTC

Life, Liberty, and Property Do Not Exist

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first pl…

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@liberty-quotes Oct 14, 2018, 11:44 AM UTC

The greater the bureaucratization of public life...

“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.” -Henry Hazlitt

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@liberty-quotes Sep 27, 2018, 10:17 PM UTC

Man has rights because they are natural rights.

>“Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt…

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@liberty-quotes Sep 27, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC

Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality.

>“Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality. Tribal loyalties, ethnic and religious bigotries, and irrational prejudices are bad for business. The merchant class has bee…

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@liberty-quotes Sep 25, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services...

>“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money,…

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@liberty-quotes Sep 25, 2018, 12:15 AM UTC

Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom...

"Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of…

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@liberty-quotes Sep 20, 2018, 11:33 PM UTC

Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing...

>“Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governm…

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@liberty-quotes Sep 20, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together...

>“The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ab…

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@liberty-quotes Sep 19, 2018, 9:18 AM UTC

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

>“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.” >― Frederick Douglass

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@liberty-quotes Sep 18, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State...

>“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would…

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