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~ And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse -- the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a socio political monster called the welfare state to exist ~

Barry Goldwater

~ ...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend ~

Fredrich August von Hayek

~ The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire ~

Robert A. Heinlein

~ The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous ~

W. G. Hill

~ To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility ~

Eric Hoffer

~ The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have notch" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor ~

Eric Hoffer

~ People who make careers out of helping others -- sometimes at great sacrifice, often not -- usually don't like to hear that those others might get along fine, might even get along better, without their help ~

John Holt

~ Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government ~

Andrew Jackson

~ What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude -- and a lot less greed ~

Michelle Malkin

~ The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it ~

John Stuart Mill

~ When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves ~

George Pataki

~ I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity, ... [it] would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded. ~

Franklin Pierce

~ The first destroyer of the liberties of a people is he who first gave them bounties and largess ~

Plutarch

~ The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits ~

Plutarch

~ Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ... [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts ~

Ronald Reagan

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