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It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than…

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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently… — Dave Barry
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of… — Ezra Taft Benson
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all… — Steven Biko
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. — Josh Billings
In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the… — Michael Caine
The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. — Gracie Allen
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you… — Leonard Cohen
If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and… — Charles Dickens
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly

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