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Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
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The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when…
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The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or…
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Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.
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Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
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Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
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If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not…
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Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence…
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What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.
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We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs…
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It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the…
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Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced…
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. --H. L. Mencken
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