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There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

— L. Neil Smith

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Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

Then they marry and see each other mostly in profile for the rest of their lives.

All real libertarians are dedicated to the eventual elimination of all taxes.

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