“When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.”

Source: The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954), p. 41

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American libertarian thinker 1887–1966

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