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Quote on complacency and life by Benjamin E. MaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities." Benjamin E. Mays
Milton Friedman quote about freedom and fairness in America's founding documentsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents." Milton Friedman
Walter Lippmann quote about freedom of speech, debate, and public opinionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate." Walter Lippmann
Liberty and discipline quote image by Walter LippmannCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice." Walter Lippmann
Quote image featuring Murray Rothbard on the free market and competitionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible." Murray Rothbard
Quote by Ludwig von Mises about Nietzsche, socialism, economics, and moralityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality." Ludwig von Mises
Chris Hedges quote about poverty, incarceration, and social inequalityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of ?,000 to ?,000 a year." Chris Hedges
Harry Browne quote about asset forfeiture and civil rightsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken." Harry Browne
Noam Chomsky quote about Federal Reserve and European Central Bank monetary policyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up." Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky quote about the role of the state sector, socialized costs, privatized profits, and advertisingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising." Noam Chomsky
Murray Rothbard quote about the Federal Reserve, systemic inflation, and control of the American monetary systemCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America, it is time to see precisely how the Fed, as presently constituted, carries out its systemic inflation and its control of the American monetary system." Murray Rothbard