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1010: Milton Friedman – Source of Inequality

The greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government. —Milton Friedman

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1009: Ludwig von Mises – History and Bold Disregard for Economics

W1009: Ludwig von Mises - Economic History — Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. —Ludwig von Mises

Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. —Ludwig von Mises

Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. —Ludwig von Mises

1008: C.S. Lewis – Moral Busybodies are the Most Oppressive

F1008: C.S. Lewis - Moral Busybodies — A tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. —C.S. Lewis

A tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. —C.S. Lewis

A tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. —C.S. Lewis

1007: Jordan Peterson – What Marx Observed

What Marx observed was that capital tended to accumulate in the hands of fewer and fewer people. And he said that’s a flaw of the Capitalist system. That’s wrong, it’s not the flaw of the Capitalist system. It’s a feature of every single system that we know of, no matter who set it up and how it operates. —Jordan Peterson

What Marx observed was that capital tended to accumulate in the hands of fewer and fewer people. And he said that’s a flaw of the Capitalist system. That’s wrong, it’s not the flaw of the Capitalist system. It’s a feature of every single system that we know of, no matter who set it up and how it operates. —Jordan Peterson

1006: H.L. Mencken – Idiotic Ideas Require Force

W1006: H.L. Mencken - Idiotic Ideas — The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. —H.L. Mencken

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. —H.L. Mencken

1005: Frederic Bastiat – Natural Tendencies of Mankind

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of government are always good? Do they not also belong to the human race? are they made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? —Frederic Bastiat

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