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• Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
• Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private…
• Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have…
• Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
• The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to…
• Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody…
• Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would…
• In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
• Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
• How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people…
• What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions…
• However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words,…

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