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Men are alive on this earth, only because the imperative human desire is to attack the enemies of human life.
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)
Liberty is inalienable; as I can not transfer my life to anyone else, I can not transfer my liberty, my control of my life-energy, to anyone else.
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)
This is the nature of human energy; individuals generate it, and control it. Each person is self-controlling, and therefore responsible for his acts. Every human being, by his nature, is free.
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)
Public debt is a new problem for Americans; a century ago, no one imagined it. Congress then did not know what to do with all the surplus money in the Treasury, and finally returned it to the States.
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)
I am a contributing creator of American civilization; it does not create me. I control the stem of this civilization that is within my reach; it does not control me. It can not even make me read Spengler, if I'd rather read a pulp magazine.
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)
When Government has a monopoly of all production and all distribution, as many Governments have, it can not permit any economic activity that competes with it. This means that it can not permit any new use of productive energy, for the new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)
The reason is that Government, by its nature, can not per mit a competitor within the field of its activities. Everyone knows that Government is a monopoly of the use of force; it can not permit individuals to use force against each other, or against the Government, nor can it permit another Government to use force inside its frontiers; if it does, it ceases to be Government.
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)