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"The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system."
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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
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"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."
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"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."
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"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers."
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"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
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