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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
– Fletcher Knebel

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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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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
– Ayn Rand

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The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
– Dresden James

*Public* Schools

Zero Tolerance Policies: Are the Schools Becoming Police States? by John W. Whitehead

I'm fine with a private establishment setting whatever rules they like. But a public school is not a private establishment. Every single person there is a government employee and is bound by the threat of force to comply with government regulations. And while I believe that the majority of educators are noble and amazing people, some are not. And the problem is the system is set up so that those few have the power to rob every one of our children of their God given rights in the name of the greater good. Public schools ARE part of the state, no matter what any one wants to believe. "Public" means the state gets final say in what goes on. Curriculum, policy, funding; all decided by bureaucrats who wouldn't be caught dead sending their kids anywhere but private school. The state *IS* guns. So I'd definitely agree with this article; our sense of reality is a little skewed if we're more terrified of a kid with an airsoft gun than of grown men with standard issue 9mms on their hips and the law telling them to use them if anyone protests enough.

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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
– Martin Luther

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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development. – William Wardell

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Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
– John Hardwick

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It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.
– Frederic Bastiat

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
– Groucho Marx

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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.
– Lysander Spooner

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When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
– James Dale Davidson

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It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights – the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery – hay and a barn for human cattle.
– Alexis De Tocquiville

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The Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
– Ronald Reagan

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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help...
– Gandhi

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If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.
– Henry David Thoreau

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 The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone – one which barely escapes being no government at all.
– H. L. Mencken

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Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.
– Frank Chodorov

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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. 
– Herbert Spencer 

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To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.
– Lord George Lyttleton

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Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.
– US District Judge James C. Paine, addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami, November, 1991