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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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After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along…
— Bob Beauprez
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'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to…
— Joe Biden
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars…
— William J. Clinton
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Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
— E. O. Wilson
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on…
— Daniel Berrigan
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The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we…
— Ron Paul
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to…
— E. O. Wilson
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What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last…
— Barack Obama
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Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the…
— T. Boone Pickens
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Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps…
— Eric Kierans
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At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion…
— Conan O'Brien
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The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars…
— Desmond Tutu
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