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What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to…

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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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What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to… — Milton Friedman
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme… — Edmund Burke
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think… — H. L. Mencken
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of… — James Weldon Johnson
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things,… — Rose Macaulay
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others. — Jim Broadbent
I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy… — Nick Denton
We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know. — Sue Johanson
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they… — Jane Porter
I think they ought to be treated equally. Period. — Gerald R. Ford
I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden… — Floyd Abrams

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