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[T]he totalitarian states, whether of the fascist or the communist persuasion, are more than superficially alike as dictatorships, in the suppression of dissent, and in operating planned and directed economies. They are profoundly alike.

— Walter Lippmann The Good Society (1937)

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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.

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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

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The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolate persons.

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

A Preface to Morals (1929)

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