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There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

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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…
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like… — Thomas Carlyle
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the… — George Bernard Shaw
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson
The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our… — George W. Bush
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and… — Thomas Jefferson
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods… — Bertrand Russell

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