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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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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,…
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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet…
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Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures…
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The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action…
— Lewis Mumford
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There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that…
— Edwidge Danticat
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We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in…
— Lord Kelvin
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If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best.…
— Henry Blackaby
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When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.
— Cliff Richard
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If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him.
— Henry Blackaby
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But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was…
— Jim Cantalupo
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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a…
— Elena Kagan
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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
— John Grierson
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