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“South Africa’s Constitution is descriptive, not prescriptive—full of pitch-perfect verbal obesities that provide little by way of recourse for those whose natural, individual rights are violated. As a protector of individual rights to life, liberty and property, it’s worse than useless—a wordy and worthless document.”

— Ilana Mercer

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"The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule."

"If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place."

"Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes."

"In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off."

"Anti-discrimination law is inconsistent with freedom of association and the right of private property."

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