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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
— Benazir Bhutto
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is…
— Benazir Bhutto
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might…
— Noam Chomsky
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Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
— Hillary Clinton
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it…
— Ajahn Brahm
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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable…
— Winston Churchill
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the…
— Tony Blair
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Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can…
— Jeff Bridges
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There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But…
— Demosthenes
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We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a…
— James Lovelock
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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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