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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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Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too…
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It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too…
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The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel…
— Faith Popcorn
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When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise…
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The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government…
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In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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When you are starting out in your 20s, it is natural to think about all that you will have and do once…
— Suze Orman
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I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the…
— Ozzie Smith
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People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
— Kay Hagan
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It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far…
— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to…
— Margaret Atwood
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By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of…
— John Roberts
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