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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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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees…
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at…
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I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make…
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Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
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The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local…
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I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many…
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The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment,…
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Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the…
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A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures…
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For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the…
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there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the…
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