AstarAlien

https://t.me/AstarAlienNFT

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2024-09-19 21:29:20

They are just as false and absurd as it would be to say that they are protecting the public healthy by arbitrarily poisoning and destroying the health of single individuals.
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2024-09-19 21:24:00

Therefore all the pretences of so-called lawmakers, that they are protecting "public rights," by violating private rights, are sheer and utter contradictions and frauds.
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2024-09-19 21:16:51

In so far as the separate, private, natural rights of individuals are secured, in just so far, and no farther, are the "public rights" secured. In so far as the separate, private, natural rights of individuals are disregarded or violated, in just so far are "public rights" disregarded or violated.
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2024-09-19 21:14:29

Legally speaking, the term "public rights" is as vague and indefinite as are the terms "public health," "public good", "public welfare" and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals.
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2024-09-19 21:14:01

The term "the public" is an utterly vague and indefinite one, applied arbitrarily and at random to a greater or less number of individuals, each and every one of whom have their own separate, individual rights, and none others.
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2024-09-19 21:13:37

I repeat that individual rights are the only human rights. Legally speaking, there are no such things as "public rights," as distinguished from individual rights.
Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as "the public."
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2024-09-19 21:13:10

Consequently they are not things that any set of either blockheads or villains, calling themselves a government, can rightfully take into their own hands, and dispose of at their pleasure, as they have been accustomed to do in this, and in nearly or quite all other countries.
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2024-09-19 21:12:23

Natural, inherent, inalienable, individual rights are sacred things. They are the only human rights. They are the only rights by which any man can protect his own property, liberty, or life against any one who may be disposed'to take it away.
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2024-09-18 21:31:13

But the right of every man to do anything, and everything, which justice does not forbid him to do, is a natural, inherent, inalienable right. It is his right, as against any and all other men, whether they be many, or few.
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2024-09-18 21:29:42

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose. But this one law of justice he may rightfully be compelled to obey; and all the force that is reasonably necessary to compel him, may right-fully be used against him.
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2024-09-18 21:27:51

Men, as individuals, may rightfully compel each other to obey this one law of justice. And it is the only law which any man can rightfully be compelled, by his fellow men, to obey.
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2024-09-18 21:24:49

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals, they thereby declare them-selves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to the nature of their acts.
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2024-09-18 21:20:02

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
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2024-09-18 21:18:07

It is against such men, that all others, who desire nothing but justice for themselves, and are willing to unite to secure it for all others, must combine, if we are ever to have justice established for any.
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2024-09-18 21:16:17

We have seen this fact illustrated in this country, through its whole history — especially during the last hundred years — and in the case of many of the most conspicuous persons. And their example and influence have been employed to pervert the whole character of the government.
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2024-09-18 21:13:37

Yet such is the inconsistency of human nature, that some men — in fact, many men — who will risk their lives for this principle, when their own liberty or property is at stake, will violate it in the most flagrant manner, if they can thereby obtain arbitrary power over the persons or property of others.
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2024-09-18 21:13:07

There is no other principle that any man can rightfully enforce upon others, or ought to consent to have enforced against himself. Every man claims the protection of this principle for himself, whether he is willing to accord it to others, or not.
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2024-09-18 21:12:22

If any government is to be a rational, consistent, and honest one, it must evidently be based on some fundamental, immutable, eternal principle; such as every man may reasonably agree to, and such as every man may rightfully be compelled to abide by, and obey.
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2024-09-18 21:11:45

"to do equal and exact justice to all men," ... Until you do that, is it not plain that the people have a right to consider you a tyrant, and the confederate and tool of tyrants, and to get rid of you as unceremoniously as they would of any other tyrant?
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2024-09-18 02:13:20

... been manufacturing, and 'promulgating, and enforcing, in violation of justice, and of all men's natural, inherent, and inalienable rights?
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2024-09-18 02:10:42

What excuse, then, have you for attempting to enforce upon the people that great mass of superfluous or criminal laws (so-called) which ignorant and foolish, or impudent and criminal, men have, for so many years ...
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2024-09-18 02:08:30

... or else they have been superfluous, as adding nothing to men's knowledge of justice, or to their obligation to do justice, or abstain from injustice.
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2024-09-18 02:08:01

That is to say, they have either been criminal, as commanding or licensing men to do what justice forbade them to do, or as forbidding them to do what justice would have permitted them to do ...
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2024-09-18 02:07:28

For one, or another, of these reasons, therefore, each and every law, so-called, that congresses have presumed to make, within all years, have been utterly destitute of all legitimate authority.
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2024-09-18 02:01:52

The science of justice is as open to be learned by all other men, as by themselves; and it is, in general, so simple and easy to be learned, that there is no need of, and no place for, any man, or body of men, to teach it, declare it, or command it, on their own authority.
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2024-09-18 02:01:10

It is, therefore, a simple impertinence, and sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands, as such, are of any authority whatever. It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
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2024-09-18 01:59:50

If they simply command justice, and forbid injustice, they add nothing to the natural authority of justice, or to men's obligation to obey it.
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2024-09-18 01:53:00

Let me now ask you how you imagine that your so-called lawmakers can "do equal and exact justice to all men," by any so-called laws of their own making. If their laws command anything but justice, or forbid anything but injustice, they are themselves unjust and criminal.
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2024-09-16 20:33:00

For the reasons now given, the simple maintenance of justice, or natural law, is plainly the one only purpose for which any coercive power — or anything bearing the name of government — has a right to exist.
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2024-09-16 20:31:59

And to say that any, or all, other men may right-fully compel him to obey any or all such other laws as they may see fit to make, is to say that he has no rights of his own, but is their subject, their property, and their slave.
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2024-09-16 20:31:09

This science of justice, or natural law, is the only science that tells us what are, and what are not, each man's natural, inherent, inalienable, individual rights, as against any and all other men.
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2024-09-16 20:30:00

They are all necessarily either the impudent, fraudulent, and criminal usurpations of tyrants, robbers, and murderers, or the senseless work of ignorant or thoughtless men, who do not know, or certainly do not realize, what they are doing.
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2024-09-16 20:29:16

If they forbid any man to do anything, which justice would permit him to do, they are criminal invasions of his natural and rightful liberty. In whatever light, therefore, they are viewed, they are utterly destitute of everything like authority or obligation.
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2024-09-16 00:14:20

If they command or license any man to do injustice, they are criminal on their face. If they command any man to do anything which justice does not require him to do, they are simple, naked usurpations and tyrannies.
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2024-09-16 00:10:16

There is consequently nothing binding or obligatory about them. And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations. If they command men to do justice, they add nothing to men's obligation to do it, or to any man's right to enforce it.
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2024-09-16 00:09:22

Therefore all their laws, as they call them, — that is, all the laws of their own making, — have no color of authority or obligation. It is a falsehood to call them laws; for there is nothing in them that either creates men's duties or rights, or enlightens them as to their duties or rights.
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2024-09-16 00:08:38

It is also, at all times, and in all places, the supreme law. And being everywhere and always the supreme law, it is necessarily everywhere and always the only law.
Lawmakers, as they call themselves, can add nothing to it, nor take anything from it.
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2024-09-15 20:37:31

If he do not desire it, or do not bargain for it, the government has no more right than any other insurance company to impose it upon him, or make him pay for it.
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2024-09-15 20:36:54

The government's pretence of protecting him, as an equivalent for the taxation, affords no justification. It is for himself to decide whether he desires such protection as the government offers him.
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2024-09-15 20:36:23

If it did, the highwayman has the same right to assume a man's consent to part with his purse, that any other man, or body of men, can have. And his assumption would afford as much moral justification for his robbery as does a like assumption, on the part of the government, for taking a man's property without his consent.
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2024-09-15 20:35:53

To take a man's property without his consent is robbery ; and to assume his consent, where no actual consent is given, makes the taking none the less robbery.
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2024-09-14 23:36:34

The dissatisfied parties, if sufficiently numerous for a new organization, would form themselves into a separate association for mutual protection. If not sufficiently numerous for that purpose, those who were conscientious would forego all governmental protection, rather than contribute to the support of a government which they deemed unjust.
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2024-09-14 23:33:54

Besides, the agreement to be taxed would probably be entered into but for a year at a time. If, in that year, the government proved itself either inefficient or tyrannical, to any serious degree, the contract would not be renewed.
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2024-09-14 23:32:45

Unless the government then kept itself within the terms of its contract, juries would not enforce the payment of the tax.
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2024-09-14 23:29:14

No man would pay his money unless he had first contracted for such a government as he was willing to support.
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2024-09-14 23:25:47

Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in concert, and calling themselves a government, as when it is done by a single individual, acting on his own responsibility, and calling himself a highwayman.
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2024-09-14 23:23:19

Taxation without consent is as plainly robbery, when enforced against one man, as when enforced against millions; and it is not to be imagined that juries could be blind to so self-evident a principle.
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2024-09-14 23:20:56

If the government can take a man's money without his consent, there is no limit to the additional tyranny it may practise upon him; for, with his money, it can hire soldiers to stand over him, keep him in subjection, plunder him at discretion, and kill him if he resists.
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2024-09-13 17:14:44

All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.
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2024-09-13 17:14:19

The people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.
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2024-09-13 17:13:47

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.
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2024-09-13 17:13:20

Constitutions are utterly worthless to restrain the tyranny of governments, unless it be understood that the people will, by force, compel the government to keep within the constitutional limits.
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2024-09-13 17:12:48

The legal effect of constitutional recognitions of the right of individuals to defend their property, liberties, and lives, against the government, is to legalize resistance to all injustice and oppression, of every name and nature whatsoever, on the part of the government.
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2024-09-13 17:12:16

It would be unnecessary and silly indeed to assert, in a constitution of government, the natural right of individuals to protect their property against thieves and robbers.
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2024-09-13 17:11:32

Many of these bills of rights also assert the natural right of all men to protect their property — that is, to protect it against the government.
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2024-09-12 23:57:25

It would be a matter of ridiculous supererogation to assert, in a constitution of government, the natural right of men to defend their lives and liberties against private trespassers.
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2024-09-12 23:56:38

Many of these bills of rights also assert the natural right of all men to protect their property — that is, to protect it against the government and not as against private persons.
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2024-09-12 23:56:04

It would be a matter of ridiculous supererogation to assert, in a constitution of government, the natural right of men to defend their lives and liberties against private trespassers.
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2024-09-12 23:55:26

That this right of resistance was recognized as a common law right, when the ancient and genuine trial by jury was in force, is not only proved by the nature of the trial itself, but is acknowledged by history.
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2024-09-12 23:54:54

If it do not authorize an individual to resist the first and least act of injustice or tyranny, on the part of the government, it does not authorize him to resist the last and the greatest.
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2024-09-12 23:54:17

If it do not authorize individuals to nip tyranny in the bud, it does not authorize them to cut it down when its branches are filled with the ripe fruits of plunder and oppression.
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2024-09-12 18:42:53

Like many other slaves they may have sufficient courage and strength to keep their masters somewhat in check -- but they are nevertheless know to the law only as slaves.
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2024-09-12 18:40:06

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
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2024-09-12 18:38:01

And here it is all-important to notice, that, practically speaking, there can be no legal right to resist the oppressions of the government, unless there be some legal tribunal, other than the government, and wholly independent of, and above, the government, to judge between the government and those who resist its oppressions.
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2024-09-12 18:35:04

It is perfectly self-evident that where there is no legal right to resist the oppression of the government, there can be no legal liberty.
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2024-09-12 18:34:40

Since, then, this forcible resistance to the injustice of the government is the only possible means of preserving liberty, it is indispensable to all legal liberty that this resistance should be legalized.
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2024-09-12 18:28:53

And if it be but suffered to be executed, it must then be borne; for the government never makes compensation for its own wrongs.
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2024-09-12 18:25:24

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
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2024-09-12 18:24:49

So long, therefore, as the oppressions of a government are kept within such limits as simply not to exasperate against it a power greater than its own, the right of revolution cannot be appealed to, and is therefore inapplicable to the case.
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2024-09-12 18:19:39

The right of revolution, therefore, is a right of no practical value, except for those who are stronger than the government.
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2024-09-12 18:17:52

All unsuccessful attempts at revolution, however justifiable in themselves, are punished as treason, if the government be permitted to judge of the treason. The government itself never admits the injustice of its laws, as a legal defence for those who have attempted a revolution, and failed.
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2024-09-12 18:17:07

The government itself never acknowledges this right. And the right is practically established only when and because the government no longer exists to call it in question. The rightr therefore, can be exercised with impunity, only when it is exercised victoriously.
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2024-09-12 18:16:29

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
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2024-09-11 17:29:31

It is important to keep in mind that the genesis of these miracles was not the deliberate intent to effect a miracle; they were the fruits of a heavenly principle: that man's rights are the endowment not of government but of the Creator -- the exclusive source of all creativity!
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2024-09-11 17:26:50

When citizens cannot turn to government for security, welfare or prosperity, to whom or what do they turn? To themselves! Result? Self-reliance and the greatest outburst of creative energy ever known -- miracles by the millions.
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2024-09-11 17:25:39

LOOT -- Living Off Others Thoughtlessly.! Who wouldn't shy away from being known as a looter? The few who understand the detail here at issue gave their approval.
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2024-09-11 17:23:56

Can this be enlightened? Finding explanatory words is our problem -- words that will "strikehome."
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2024-09-11 17:23:24

The millions who coercively take the fruits of your and my labor unto themselves are not only unaware of the causes of economic affluence but they are equally unaware of the sin they commit. Theirs is the sin of ignorance.
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2024-09-11 15:52:34

How is this plundering "financed"? By the issuance of so-called legal tender, that is, by fiat or irredeemable paper money: inflation.
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2024-09-11 15:49:47

Why this monetary nonsense? Millions of unaware citizens regard the enormous aggregate of marketable goods and services as a huge grab bag to be plundered.
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2024-09-11 15:39:26

When honest, money works infallibly, no one giving its workability a second thought; productivity increases and exchanges multiply.However, when the causes of our miraculous economic ascendancy are not understood, inflation -- a dilution of the medium of exchange -- sets in. Printing money is easier than producing goods, and today inflation is on the rampage!
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2024-09-10 22:53:29

The bird is no longer in the nest. Why? The early and clearly recognized correlation between labor and productivity -- physical and intellectual -- served as a springboard for successes today, and so fantastic, that hardly anyone traces the effect back to causes.
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2024-09-10 22:50:41

The correlation between productive labor and having the wherewithal needed for survival was simple; reward was clearly proportioned to effort. The bird was in the nest!
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2024-09-10 22:48:26

Success is not dangerous when we grasp the causes; it is loaded with danger when we are blind to them. Our early ancestors, by and large, knew the causes of success. It was hard work from morning till night -- everything from sawing wood to growing and harvesting corn to making candles.
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2024-09-10 22:44:13

Those of us who aspire to the free society can realize our goal only as we understand and obey the basic principles -- rules -- of morality and ethics, and succeed in limiting civil law to assuring liberty and justice for one and all alike. This is the formula for ruling the rulers out of existence!
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2024-09-09 22:06:05

Conceded, the millions incapable of overcoming their passions to rule -- dictate how our lives should be lived -- are hopelessly lost to our cause. And the same may be said of the millions who prefer a robot status to individuality -- being one's own man!
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2024-09-09 22:03:05

Ther are wisdom in question was pronounced. Here it is: "I desire neither to rule or be ruled." And these are not twin desires, but one. For every would-be ruler is hopelessly ruled by his desire to rule. To be free, he must free himself of any such desire.
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2024-09-09 22:00:04

What can we do to replace the oncoming darkness with the light of freedom? The answer is as simple to state as it is difficult to achieve: promote an understanding and practice among more and more of an all-too-rare wisdom.
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2024-09-09 21:55:21

Briefly, the lust for such power stems not from the strength but a weakness of character. Thus the millions of power mongers: weaklings who know not how to run their own lives, although they "know" how to run yours and mine!
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2024-09-09 21:54:45

From enlightenment to darkness! From a government of strictly limited power to a condition of rulers unlimited. If we are to again get on the right track, we shall have to find the correct answer to who shall rule the rulers! More precisely, how shall we curb this ruling passion?
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2024-09-09 19:53:25

Why do so few good men give so little heed to the present slump into socialism? Because they are enjoying the prosperity that still exists! What they fail to grasp is that our well-being rests solely on the individual creativity that socialism has not yet destroyed!
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2024-09-09 19:50:42

All subsidies or giveaways depend upon prior production. If there were no production, there could be no giveaways. That government should have become the instrument of such coercive redistribution is a far cry from the limited role it once served.
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2024-09-09 19:50:04

If direct taxation does not yield sufficient funds, then government will tax indirectly by diluting the medium of exchange -- Inflation! Additional inflation -- legal monetizing of debt -- has occurred every year for the past several decades.
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2024-09-09 19:44:50

Government produces nothing on its own. If it is to own and control the results of production, it must either seize such goods and services from producers or raise the funds with which to purchase them.
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2024-09-09 19:42:42

It is not only thieves who seek their private gain at the expense of others; millions of good men do likewise -- and quite innocently. Reflect on the vast number of people the government pays for not working, or not farming; think of the countless thousands of other private gains at the expense of producers.
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2024-09-09 16:52:16

It is a sin -- the breaking of moral law. One of the wisest observations relating to this thesis was written inantiquity -- no one knows precisely when.
Sin is not the violation of a law or convention ... but ignorance ... which seeks its own private gain at the expense of others.
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2024-09-09 16:48:00

All good men will concede that blackmail -- "to coerce (into doing something) as by threats" -- is evil. Is not the oft parroted Marxist line, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" precisely the same evil, that is, when coercively implemented?
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2024-09-09 16:44:56

The second type of socialism is the Welfare State: government ownership and/or control of the results of production. Is this evil? Yes, for it is wrong in conception and it breeds additional wrongs.
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2024-09-09 16:04:36

They substitute their know-nothing-ness for the miraculous wisdom of the free and unfettered market -- each free to act creatively as he pleases. Limited government? That idea never would occur to one who presumes to know everything, and for precisely the same reason: blindness!
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2024-09-09 16:01:00

The Planned Economy is featured by power mongers -- bearers of false witness -- who haven't the slightest idea of how little they know. They do not even know of your and my existence! Yet, they never question their ability to govern all of us in that primitive, barbaric sense: "to exercise authority over; direct; control; rule; manage."
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2024-09-08 20:20:59

For anyone to be intolerant of others is to assess himself as the infallible I,the authorityin rendering final judgments. Such authoritarianism is the very opposite of the freedom one avowedly stands for.
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2024-09-08 20:08:20

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
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2024-09-08 20:08:20

2024-09-08 20:07:35

The only true spirit of tolerance consists in our conscientious toleration of each other's intolerance.
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2024-09-06 21:26:25

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The more free you are, the more is possible.

2024-09-06 21:23:02

Everything in the Cosmos, be it atoms or galaxies or man, is in constant change. Any attempt to stabilize the what-is, as related to social affairs, is an affront to evolution -- Creation at whatever level!
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2024-09-06 15:58:42

Why do millions of socialistically oriented people fall into this politico-economic trap? They fail to recognize that their give-aways consist of goods and services forcibly withdrawn from the free market which produced them -- that much maligned and handicapped free market which their schemes have not yet destroyed.
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2024-09-05 18:54:23

Pride sprouts and grows from ignorance and self-blindness. Those with a haughty spirit foolishly believe they know the most, where as they know the least. While they don't know how to make a pencil or why grass is green or who we are, they "know" how to run our lives.
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2024-09-05 15:59:09

You are as young as your faith,
as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence,
as old as your fear;
as young as your hope,
as old as your despair.
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2024-09-05 15:38:37

Evolution is attuned to Natural Law. Individuals who are responsive to this Heavenly radiation, instead of growing weary of inquiry, look upon successive moments of their mortal lives as opening up new and exciting opportunities.
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2024-09-05 15:33:31

Does anyone have the right to take the life, the livelihood, the liberty of an other? No, because this is not a "right" that can be conceded to all others. It is evil!
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2024-09-02 20:59:51

These bands of robbers, small in number at first, have increased their power by uniting with each other, inventing warlike weapons, disciplining themselves, and perfecting their organizations as military forces, and dividing their plunder among themselves, either in such proportions as have been previously agreed on, or in such as their leaders should prescribe.
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2024-09-02 18:57:11

Why is it that any human being ever conceived that anything so self-evidently superfluous, false, absurd, and atrocious as all legislation necessarily must be, could be of any use to mankind, or have any place in human affairs?
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2024-09-02 18:43:59

Natural law, natural justice, being such a principle as this, these questions arise: Why is it that it does not universally prevail? Why is it that it has not, ages ago, been established throughout the world as the one only law that any man, or all men, could rightfully be compelled to obey?
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2024-09-02 18:27:57

Natural law, natural justice, being a principle that is naturally applicable and adequate to the rightful settlement of every possible controversy that can arise among men; being, too, the only standard by which any controversy whatever, between man and man, can be rightfully settled.
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2024-09-02 18:19:39

If there be no such obligation as justice, there can certainly be no other moral obligation -- truth, mercy, nor any other -- resting upon mankind. To deny the obligation of justice is, therefore, to deny the existence of any moral obligation whatever among men, in their relations to each other.
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2024-09-02 16:57:04

They are either the mere conceits of simpletons, who imagine they have discovered something better than truth, and justice, and universal law; or they are mere devices and pretenses, to which selfish and knavish men resort as means to get fame, and power, and money.
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2024-09-02 16:50:54

If there be no such science as justice, there can be no science of government; and all the rapacity and violence, by which, in all ages and nations, a few confederated villains have obtained the mastery over the rest of mankind, reduced them to poverty and slavery, and established what they called governments to keep them in subjection, have been as legitimate examples of government as any that the world is ever to see.
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2024-09-01 17:28:12

They are confessions that the governments exist for the punishment and prevention of acts that are, in their nature, simple impossibilities.
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2024-09-01 17:22:43

On the other hand, if there be no such natural principle as justice, there can be no such thing as injustice. If there be no such natural principle as honesty, there can be no such thing as dishonesty.
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2024-09-01 17:21:04

In short, if there be no such principle as justice, there can be no such acts as crimes; and all the professions of governments, so called, that they exist, either in whole or in part, for the punishment or prevention of crimes, are professions that they exist for the punishment or prevention of what never existed, nor ever can exist.
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2024-09-01 16:54:46

On the other hand, if there be no such principle as justice, or natural law, then every human being came into the world utterly destitute of rights; and coming into the world destitute of rights, he must necessarily forever remain so.
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2024-08-31 21:33:09

But if justice be a natural principle, then it is necessarily an immutable one; and can no more be changed -- by any power inferior to that which established it -- than can the law of gravitation, the laws of light, the principles of mathematics.
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2024-08-31 17:26:24

No man can rightfully be coerced into joining associations, or supporting one, against his will. His own interest, his own judgement, and his own conscience alone must determine whether he will join this association, or that; or whether he will join any.
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2024-08-30 17:18:29

None the less, this is our wonderful opportunity. The more clearly we apprehend why freedom should be the rule, the more clearly can we point it out.
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2024-08-29 23:00:50

Many of those who agree that freedom should be the rule will endorse social security, Medicare, trips to the moon, subsidies, on and on.
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2024-08-29 19:02:09

Others tend to encourage me to specialize at what is of value to them, and I tend to encourage them to specialize at what is of value to me. This is how people in a free society exert their wishes.
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2024-08-29 00:48:34

Limited government gives way to unlimited government.
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2024-08-29 00:39:01

While governments have varying methods of organization for owning and controlling the means and results of production, such control is of the essence of socialism; the rest is window dressing.
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2024-08-28 22:48:18

Freedom has no needs. But anyone who can think long-range will likely conclude, sooner or later, that "the need is mine."
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2024-08-28 22:24:46

The question is: Does the individual need freedom?
And my answer is, "Yes, indeed!"
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