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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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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
— Alcuin
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
— Eric Hoffer
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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in…
— Charles Hodge
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When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do…
— Ayn Rand
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The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more,…
— William Johnson Sollas
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world,"…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and…
— John Locke
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when…
— Unknown Author
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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the…
— Henry Charles Carey
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The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
— Vilfredo Pareto
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This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may…
— Richard Blumenthal
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