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Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Republicanism, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.

— Leonard E. Read Elements of Libertarian Leadership (1962)

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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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