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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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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in…
— Peter De Vries
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Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going…
— Louis Simpson
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Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation…
— Milton Friedman
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An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
— Tom Coburn
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The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships,…
— Gustav Landauer
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I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35,…
— Sean Astin
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It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical…
— Phyllis Schlafly
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By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in…
— Jonathan Sarfati
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I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself…
— Unknown Author
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A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.
— Jacob Zuma
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It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should…
— George Washington
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