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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been…
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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…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
— Joan D. Chittister
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What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
— Umair Haque
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An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further…
— Mark Lynas
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What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up…
— Clifford Geertz
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The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He…
— Milton Friedman
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Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was…
— Mancur Olson
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Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor…
— Jiang Zemin
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The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
— Lawrence Halprin
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In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
— Norodom Sihamoni
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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
— Norodom Sihamoni
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Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities,…
— Nelson Mandela
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