"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."

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"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."

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"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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"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"

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"Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive."

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"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."

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"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."

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"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

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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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"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."

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