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Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.


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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.



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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.



[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics



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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.



Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.



The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.



If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.



The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.



Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.



Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.





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It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound, "' Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say.



Man's the bad child of the universe.

Man's the bad child of the universe.



To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.



Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

Great businesses turne on a little pinne.



I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.



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Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.



Open yourself to the changes; you can then create many different beauties like the skies do!

Open yourself to the changes; you can then create many different beauties like the skies do!



See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.




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