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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in… — John Milton
Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed… — Simon Jenkins
I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have… — Peter Brimelow
I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the happiness of his… — Gouverneur Morris
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd… — Alexander Pope
It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age.… — Trevor Dunn
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own… — Ludwig von Mises
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of… — Murray Rothbard
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to… — Benjamin Franklin
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind… — Noam Chomsky
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word… — Noam Chomsky
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public… — Stephen Holmes
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more… — Denise Caruso
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public… — Noam Chomsky
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an… — Laurence Tribe
The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of… — Jesse Taylor
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our… — Thomas Jefferson
The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that… — Ludwig von Mises
Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We… — Murray Rothbard
Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is… — Beverly LaHaye
Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office. — Beverly LaHaye
It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms. — Robert Reich
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. — Thom Gunn
There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private — Jesmyn Ward
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; its a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the… — Charles Ruff

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