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“The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.”

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Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct…

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There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

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Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically…

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The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

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The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to…

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Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

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In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

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Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

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What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism,…

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The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as…

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[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There…

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There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can…

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

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The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

Jeffrey R. Holland

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

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When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you…

Olivia Newton-John

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

Seneca the Younger

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

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A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

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