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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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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf…
— A. P. Herbert
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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,…
— Milton Friedman
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So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
— Ban Ki-moon
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Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so
— Sacha Guitry
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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it…
— H. L. Mencken
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