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“Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.”

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Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.”

“The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.”

“It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.”

“The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.”

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Author:Winston Churchill