Postwhoring thread

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The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk". – Harry Browne

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. – Ronald Reagan

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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. – Justice William O. Douglas

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Why doesn't everybody just leave everybody else the hell alone? – Jimmy Durante

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This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future! – Adolph Hitler [1935] The Weapons Act of Nazi Germany.

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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. – William S. Burroughs

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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors. – John Stuart Mill

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When taxes are too high, people go hungry. – Lao Tsu

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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once. – Robert Anton Wilson

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What's *just* has been debated for centuries but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn *belongs* to you – and why? – Walter Williams

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. – Henry David Thoreau

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No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? – Thomas Sowell

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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort … is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence. – Ayn Rand

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Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. – Thomas Paine

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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. – P.J. O'Rourke

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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

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The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. – Lao Tsu

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When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. – Thomas Jefferson

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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. – Mohandas Gandhi

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Force always attracts men of low morality. – Albert Einstein

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A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot – because the first leads inevitably to the second. – Harry Browne

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It is not charity if it's at the point of a gun. – Unknown

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The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. – Ayn Rand

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When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress? – Marilyn French

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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. – Ronald Reagan

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# There is no more country – everyone go home. – Bracken

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I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. – John Lydon

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Society exists for the benefit of its members – not the members for the benefit of society. – Herbert Spencer

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When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty. – George Mason

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What is a Communist? One who has yearnings – for equal division of unequal earnings. – Ebenezer Elliot

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. – Mary McCarthy

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Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression. – d*** Feagler

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There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation. – Frédéric Bastiat

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The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace. – H. L. Mencken

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A man should be upright, not be kept upright. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. – F. Lee Bailey

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Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless. – Kenneth Baker

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. – Frédéric Bastiat

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People fear witches, and burn women. – Justice Louis Brandeis

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The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government … Unfortunately … that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives … Today, it is the government that is free – free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter … that is not subject to legislation. – Harry Browne

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Communism is like one big phone company. – Lenny Bruce

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. – Edmund Burke

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If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. – George Bush

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It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country. – Stephen T. Byington

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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging than the drug itself. – Jimmy Carter

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The office of the government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. – William Ellery Channing

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If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself … We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility. – Michael Cloud

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We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them. – William L. Comer

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America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. – Henry Steele Commager

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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. – Calvin Coolidge

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You can only be free if I am free. – Clarence Darrow

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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. – Philip K. d***

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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. – Justice William O. Douglas

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A tyranny based on … deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. – Albert Einstein

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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves. – Marilyn Ferguson

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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion – the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals – the technique of the marketplace. – Milton Friedman

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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless or, which is the same thing, corrupt. – Mohandas Gandhi