Quote #13

Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

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  2. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.
  3. Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit a…
  4. I say, embrace fear as a friend. It is nature's gift to us. It is the best weapon for liberty. ... It permits us to escape or to fight with…
  5. When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in …
  6. There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
  7. As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
  8. To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

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