"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people."

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"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 is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

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"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."

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"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."

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