"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

Trust, Belief, Arguments, Freedom

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"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

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"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."

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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"A man in loss is not a man to trust."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Trust, but verify."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

James Madison, American President

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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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"One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship."

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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 greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

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

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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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"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."

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"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."

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