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- Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would…
- The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is…
- You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life…
- There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals…
- The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like,…
- The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty…
- The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role…
- I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money,…
- Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we…
- The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
- What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only…
- The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
- I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
- For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of…
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