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When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.
Karl Hess
http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Karl_Hess.html

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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/12/2004, 12:18pm)
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In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.
Karl Hess
http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Karl_Hess.html

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The radical and revolutionary view of the future of nationhood is, logically, that it has no future, only a past—often an exciting one, and usually a historically useful one at some stage. But lines drawn on paper, on the ground or in the stratosphere are clearly insufficient to the future of mankind.
Karl Hess
http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Karl_Hess.html

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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice...moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Karl Hess
Speech for Barry Goldwater

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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/11/2004, 12:00pm)
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The Declaration of Independence is so lucid we're afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.
Karl Hess
http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Karl_Hess.html

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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/09/2004, 1:47pm)
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...the state...has not given me anything that it did not first extort from me.
Karl Hess
http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Karl_Hess.html

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