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Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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