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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
— John Herschel
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We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers…
— Blaise Pascal
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A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical…
— James Madison
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It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers,…
— Paul Davies
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Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and…
— Lord Kelvin
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Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and…
— Mary Somerville
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The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.
— Philip Kapleau
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to…
— Plato
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When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real…
— H. L. Richardson
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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character…
— Plato
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