John Hospers - Libertarianism (1971)

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A fascist is a student who, seeing the representatives of a chemical industry recruiting on campus, cries, 'Let's chase the bastard off! We have the right to free speech but he doesn't!'

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If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

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By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments-that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.

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Liberty (or freedom) is the absence of coercion by other human beings.

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