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“We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“We Americans are free to give our opinions and make our voices heard. We work in a free enterprise economy that, for over 200 years, has lifted countless individuals above the circumstances of their birth to achieve their God-given potential. We have been an exceptional country because, here, people are free to practice their faiths and worship God.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.”

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Author:Lucan

“Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.”

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Book:Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

Source: Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

“Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.”

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Author:John Naisbitt

“The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.”

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Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.”

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Author:Ludwig von Mises

“A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.”

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Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.”

Mean Self Action Law Individual Economy Greater Rights Habit Reform Denial Idle Sober Industrious Self-denial

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance