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- Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So…
- If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base…
- Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to…
- 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…
- The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are…
- Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
- I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most…
- Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group…
- For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of…
- Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I…
- The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion…
- We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example,…
- I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated…
- A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market…
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