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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard19.html

As do I.
I have had a copy of this on at least one of my walls since 1980.
Everyone should read it at least once in their life.
After a lifetime of contemplation, I could not have come up with anything better.
As usual, Murray Rothbard nails it .
and so -

"I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty, and that the democratic form is as bad as any of the other forms....

I believe in complete freedom of thought and speech – alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run. I believe in the reality of progress. I --

But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than to be ignorant."

H. L. Mencken

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