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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”

Political History Conditions Capitalism Sufficient Political Freedom

Author:Milton Friedman

“Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.”

“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”

Government Political Politics Freedom Teach History Conservative

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.”

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.”

Way Political Used Moral History Collections Spite Protest Historian Occasional Precedent

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire