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I want people to take thought about their condition, and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing. And it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding; that if you [the government] step in to try to do something about them, not only will you make them worse, but you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere.

[...] we are heading toward a destruction of our free society, and toward a totalitarian society.Spoken during a TV interview on PBS sometime in the 1960s