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There is a recognition of the equality of rights among citizens in …

There is a recognition of the equality of rights among citizens in the pursuit of the ordinary avocations of life, and a declaration that all grants of exclusive privileges, in contravention of this equality, are against common right, and void. Mr. Justice Stephen Field
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age, by Paul Kens. University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Our current [Social Security

Our current [Social Security] system was essentially introduced by the chancellor of Germany, Prince Otto von Bismark, in 1889 — twenty years before the first Model-T rolled off the tracks. It does not incorporate anything we have learned with regard to markets and investments over the past one hundred years. And yet any suggestion that the system might be improved through modernization, choice, and privatization is met by Luddite-like opposition. Theodore Forstmann
From remarks delivered during the 1997 Shavano Institute for National Leadership

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