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We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.
Karl Hess
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Karl Hess
Age: 70 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 25
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.
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Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.
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When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.
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The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.
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They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It is not a socialist seed. It is not a capitalist seed. It is not a mystical seed. It is not a determinist seed. It is simply a statement. We can be free. After that it’s all choice and chance.
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The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were 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.
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The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.
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All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.
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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.
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Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.
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The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.
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