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To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national…

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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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The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself… — Alexandre Kojeve
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He… — Milton Friedman
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable. — Richard E. Byrd
The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as… — Aleister Crowley
Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning… — Philip Wylie
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger
All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone… — Steven Pressfield
The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition. — Malcolm X
Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself. — Marguerite de Navarre
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal
As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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