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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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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water…
— Walter Chrysler
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
— E. M. Forster
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Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American…
— Mark Earley
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Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a…
— Unknown Author
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Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places…
— John Lennon
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I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride…
— Denise Van Outen
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Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in…
— Tracy Kidder
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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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I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular…
— Mario Testino
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Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
— Q'orianka Kilcher
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Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.
— John Armstrong
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