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    Quote Originally Posted by Acala View Post
    "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire.

    No evidence that he ever said or wrote this. But he almost certainly would have endorsed it. He was that kind of guy.
    Evelyn Beatrice Hall
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall

    In The Friends of Voltaire, Hall wrote the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"[4] (which is often misattributed to Voltaire himself) as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs.[5][6][7] Hall's quotation is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



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  3. #32
    Was reading this:

    Slowly... Then All At Once
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-0...-then-all-once

    I know what quote he's referring to and it's actually:

    http://www.24grammata.com/wp-content...24grammata.pdf

    "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
    "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."

    In the film it goes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reEZ...tu.be&t=52m41s

    Bill: Bankrupt? How'd that happen to you?
    Mike: Two ways. Gradually and suddenly.
    Hemingway wrote it best.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



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