What would you think of someone who said, “I would like to have a cat provided it barked”? Yet your statement that you favor a government provided it behaves as you believe desirable is precisely equivalent. The biological laws that specify the characteristics of cats are no more rigid than the political laws that specify [...]
Milton Friedman Quotes
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Barry Goldwater Quotes
Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. And . . . moderation in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue. — Barry Goldwater I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to [...]
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Thomas Sowell Quotes
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long. — Thomas Sowell It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making [...]
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