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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 measure that would…
- Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique…
- Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the…
- Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.…
- But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an…
- That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come…
- A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom.…
- What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to…
- Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case.…
- I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing,…
- The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role…
- Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our…
- . . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One…
- So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much…
- The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet…
- The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
- For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour