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"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
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"If one does not interfere in the obtained worldly life, then worldly life will run straight forward & smoothly. But one keeps interfering in the obtained worldly life. From the moment he wakes up, he interferes. If there is no interference in the unfolding circumstances one has obtained, then God's control will prevail, but by interfering one takes over the control himself."
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
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"And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?"
"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
"I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal."
"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."
"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."
"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
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