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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
— Aristotle
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
— Winston Churchill
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When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it…
— William J. Clinton
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What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
— William Inge
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal…
— Simone Weil
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Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.
— Unknown Author
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and…
— Tacitus
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined…
— Samuel Johnson
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Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,…
— John Dalton
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