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Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolut...more

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Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t r...more

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There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as i...more

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There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that a...more

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This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning t...more

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We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law tha...more

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The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads...more

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For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the...more

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Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine" in a free society, and have said that in such a society, "there is one and only one soci...more