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“He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.”

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Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.”

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Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.”

“Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to "fine-tune" the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat.”

“A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.”

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Author:Russell B. Long

“According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?”

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Author:Daniel J. Mitchell

“If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.”

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Author:Lewis Goldberg

“The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.”

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Book:Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

“I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.”

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Book:Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.”