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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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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
— Dennis Weaver
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But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are…
— Frederic Bastiat
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You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act,…
— William Ruckelshaus
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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose…
— Eric Hoffer
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Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what…
— Calvin Coolidge
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A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically…
— David Petersen
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We also need to remember the enduring principles on which the National Party is based – individual responsibility, support for families and…
— John Key
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is…
— Benito Mussolini
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The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He…
— Milton Friedman
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