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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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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in…
— Laurance Labadie
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Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always…
— Milton Friedman
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public…
— Sam Houston
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The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer…
— Albert J. Nock
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In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years,…
— Henry Charles Carey
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A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
— Thorstein Veblen
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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know…
— Walter E. Williams
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The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.…
— Ezra Heywood
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It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A…
— Viviane Reding
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There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and…
— James K. Polk
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