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If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in…

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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…
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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 nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. — Alexander Graham Bell
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black
Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person. — Sandra Bullock
We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we… — Landon Pearson
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been… — Ramsey Clark
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation… — Herbert Hoover
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by… — Theodor Herzl
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to… — Rudolf Arnheim
The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve… — Unknown Author
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a… — Charles Wagner

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