Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others.

The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.

The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.

Force and mind are opposites, morality ends where a gun begins.

Force and mind are opposites, morality ends where a gun begins.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

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