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I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.
I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.
Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.
Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.
The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.
Tort reform is a complicated subject and not a panacea.
The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.
Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.
What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.
We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.
Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.
Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.
It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.
Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?
Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.
Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.
Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.
I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.
For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.
I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.
Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.
Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.
There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.
If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.
My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.
Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.