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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

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City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

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It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 12th, 1946

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