Quote #14

Government cannot relieve from toil. The normal must take care of themselves. Self-government means self-support: Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing: History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

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