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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…
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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…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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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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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I…
— Harry Belafonte
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President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks…
— John O. Brennan
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I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring…
— Madeleine Albright
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
— Jimmy Carter
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So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary…
— Alan K. Simpson
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Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always…
— J. William Fulbright
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I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.
— Thomas Jefferson
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[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it…
— Ron Paul
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Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
— John Dingell
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Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be…
— Milton Friedman
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Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must…
— Nick Rahall
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