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The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power…

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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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Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. — David Cook
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved — Joyce Carol Oates
The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control — Nora Dunn
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort… — Billy Corgan
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. — D. Todd Christofferson
Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time. — Marc Ian Barasch
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke
I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were.… — Andrew Motion
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are… — Paul Muldoon
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old… — D. A. Carson
It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War… — Margaret Thatcher
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after… — Nigella Lawson

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