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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for poli

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. – Milton Friedman

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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. – Milton Friedman

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Government
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Milton Friedman
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. – Milton Friedman

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Government
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. – Marcel Proust

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A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. – Walter Lippmann

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Freedom

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every should is a compulsion, and not every like is a high morality and true freedom. – Karl Rahner

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. – Maria Montessori

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Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. – Ashley Montagu

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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. – Ella Maillart

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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. – Bob Dole

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