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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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Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for…
— John Gummer
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I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is…
— Thomas Merton
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. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two…
— Milton Friedman
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There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
— Calvin Coolidge
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If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar…
— Jamie Oliver
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Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free,…
— Pope John Paul II
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The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are…
— Erich Fromm
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