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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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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It…
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive…
— Philip Sidney
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Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The…
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Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty…
— Naomi Wolf
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Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes…
— John Owen
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To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet…
— Nilakanta Sri Ram
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Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family…
— John F. Kennedy
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