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John Milton

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
John Milton, “The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates” (1650).

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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1922), Part V.

— Ludwig von Mises