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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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It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on…
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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,…
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A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting…
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Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything…
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Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them,…
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We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely…
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It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies…
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Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on…
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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