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Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.


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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.

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



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

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



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

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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.



When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.



Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.



Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.



There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.

There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.



Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.



Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.




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