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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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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the…
— Peter Brimelow
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I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules…
— Michael Chertoff
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The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares…
— Malcolm X
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In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
— Paul Craig Roberts
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group…
— Paul Krugman
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This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,…
— Murray Rothbard
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The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself...…
— Theda Skocpol
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There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to…
— Milton Friedman
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We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long…
— Ronald Reagan
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I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past…
— Ron Howard
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Im sorry Im not gay or Jewish, so I dont have a special interest group of journalists that support me.
— Vincent Gallo
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That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest…
— Angela Merkel
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