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There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils.…

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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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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they… — Unknown Author
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have… — Ezra Taft Benson
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders.… — Paul Keating
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to… — Benjamin Bloom
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. — Conan O'Brien
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism, — Margaret Sanger
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to… — Walter Pater
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people… — Rowan Williams
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. — Mira Sorvino
Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know. — M. King Hubbert
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail… — Bill Gates

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