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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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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver. — Edward James Olmos
War is just one more big government program. — Joseph Sobran
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the… — Christy Clark
It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people. — L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or… — P.J. O'Rourke
There's a smokestack on the back of every government program. — Milton Friedman
We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma. — Chuck Grassley
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we… — Tom Coburn
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is… — George Will
Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program. — Ronald Reagan
The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program — Ronald Reagan

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