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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 chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how…
— John le Carre
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for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
— James Madison
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary…
— Noah Webster
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Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories…
— Richard Baxter
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The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners…
— Tom DeLay
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The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,…
— Joseph Henry
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