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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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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and…
— Milton Friedman
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You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those…
— Fiona Wood
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A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
— Henry Edward Manning
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Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if…
— Hans Blix
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Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help…
— David Riesman
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us…
— Thomas Huxley
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How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one…
— Frank Beddor
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