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“Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.”

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Book:The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations

Source: The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations

“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

Source: Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

“The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.”

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Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.”

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Book:Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

“We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.”

“A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.”

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Author:William Jennings Bryan