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The basic mistake is the assumption that with a government they will have more than what they would have had in the marketplace. The truth is that they wind up with less. For the government can only give you something by taking away something you want more.

— Harry Browne How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (1973)

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Freedom is more often lost by false assumptions than by the power of one's enemies.

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