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I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense…

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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…
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the… — Thomas Jefferson
The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy… — Ulysses S. Grant
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have… — Walter E. Williams
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed… — Thomas Jefferson
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson
A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he… — Thomas Paine
The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.… — Samuel Ruiz

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