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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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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific…
— Alan Alda
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Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. ... Science is a…
— John Bardeen
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Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond…
— Adolf Hitler
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We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
— Jacobo Timerman
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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
— David Lloyd George
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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the…
— O. Henry
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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…
— Milton Friedman
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help…
— H. Bentley Glass
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Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are…
— Burton Richter
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