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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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What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith…
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There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and…
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The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated;…
— Milton Friedman
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Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by…
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What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate…
— Austin Farrer
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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
— Alister E. McGrath
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It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their…
— Austin Farrer
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
— Karl Popper
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I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth…
— Ayn Rand
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Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.
— Steven Weinberg
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In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the…
— Stephen Kinzer
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