Highlights

These are popular highlights from Know Stealing as presented on the Amazon.com website April 5, 2012.

Popular Highlights

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it is the right and responsibility of each individual to defend his life, liberty and property. Furthermore just government is established to assist the individual in defending his life, liberty and property. &quote;
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Understanding the simple idea that people depend on production is required to restore our liberty and personal wealth &quote;
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We must always remember that people depend on production. People eat food and use things. Food and things must be produced. Government produces nothing and wastes much. Every promise made by a government official has to be kept by a producer. &quote;
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The course we are on as a nation is unsustainable. No great civilization expects to collapse, yet they all have. &quote;
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“whenever someone got something he didn't work for, someone else worked for something he didn't get.” &quote;
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The people and institutions whose wealth depends on these systems of theft say that economics is beyond our reach. &quote;
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“The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class. The great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages will bear its burden without complaint.” &quote;
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Our large, intrusive, destructive government exists because the people have been deceived and robbed. It exists because we have unwittingly permitted legal plunder. &quote;
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Ideas guide actions which have outcomes. Therefore, if society as a whole has common problems, then whatever ideas are commonly accepted about the world are suspect. &quote;
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If we subsidize bad behavior, we will get more of it. If we penalize production, we will get less of it. &quote;
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