“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.”
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
