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"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."
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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."

"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."

"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

"The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."
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"Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away."

"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."

"I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago."

"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."

"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors."

"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."

"I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information."

"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."
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