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I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour — Gary Becker
The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared — Francis Fukuyama
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'. — John Stuart Mill
What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse — Unknown Author
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression… — Winston Churchill
The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response — Nathan Rosenberg
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the… — Douglass North
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours — Andrei Sakharov
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand — Jeremy Bentham
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property… — Unknown Author
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really… — Richard Dawkins
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Unknown Author
It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money — Unknown Author
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice — David Landes
Innovations until now conceived by no one at all — Israel Kirzner
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that — Daniel Dennett
If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts… — Richard Dawkins
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to… — Robert Lucas, Jr.
Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it… — Paul Romer
Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism — Nathan Rosenberg
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life,… — Richard Dawkins
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his… — Gordon Brown
We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning — Carl Menger
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom — Margaret Thatcher

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