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Why do tourists gape so eagerly at this sort of thing [Château de Fontainebleau]? Most people, I believe, aspire to what these agents and sycophants of the state achieved: ease without work, services for themselves by edict, power and position by wishing plus, of course, a little intrigue.

— Leonard E. Read Leonard E. Read Journal (1949)

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The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson.

Socialism is founded on a lie -- the premise that man knows more than he in fact does know.

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Communism, socialism, the welfare state, et cetera, are essentially one and the same thing.

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Civilization, I sometimes think, is little more than a thin veneer of culture covering a host of red-assed baboons!

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It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule.

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