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Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in one eye.
The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.
Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".
The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.
The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.
For a nation, the choices that determine whether income doubles in one generation or two dwarf all other economic policy concerns.
'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'
Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.
Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.
The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.
A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.
Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.
Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.
Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.
Working in a bipartisan manner, with Congress and the support of the American people, Trump can, in fact, make America great again.
A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.