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“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
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“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
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“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
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“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
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Janet’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Janet’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Children's, Christian, Classics, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Religion, Suspense, Travel, and Young-adult
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