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The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade…

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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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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. — Edmund Burke
I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade… — David Cameron
Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things… — Deepak Chopra
Free trade should not mean free labor. — Stephen F. Lynch
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society… — Thomas Szasz
You don't need a treaty to have free trade. — Murray Rothbard
The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade… — Unknown Author
The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home… — Milton Friedman
I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain… — Paul Romer
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,… — George Stigler
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed… — Michael Parenti
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements… — Danny Glover

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