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Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution?

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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

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The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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