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"Governments never learn. Only people learn."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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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."
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."
"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
"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."
"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes."
"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."
"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
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