What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Some argue property concentration can still limit freedom for the poor.
The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.
Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation.
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