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Radical and revolutionary movements seek not to revise but to revoke. The target of revocation should be obvious. The target is politics itself.”

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Libertarianism is a people's movement and a liberation movement.

Letter From Washington," The Libertarian Forum 1, no. 6 (1969)

The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

Foreword (1984) to The Market for Liberty (1970)

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash.

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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Benito Mussolini

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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