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“The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed”
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“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
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“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
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“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
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“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
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“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”
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“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
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“The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.”
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“Mister, there's nothing I've got to do except die”
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“Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise”
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“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
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