"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-Frederic Bastiat
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"Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?“
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"In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?"
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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