I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

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If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

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You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

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It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

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There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

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Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

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