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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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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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In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more…
— William Howard Taft
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A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been…
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I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a…
— John Updike
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The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act…
— George Stephanopoulos
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount…
— Ronald Reagan
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Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s.…
— Tim O'Reilly
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