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The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

— David R. Henderson

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The government’s monopoly is what has allowed it to produce so bad a product for so long.

The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

One thing we know from centuries of history is that if the government has revenue to spend, it will spend it.

The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

Unfortunately, not content to enforce its monopoly power over what new drugs get produced, the FDA also seeks to limit doctor’s uses of legal drugs for uses not specified on the label.

The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

British author Thomas Carlyle called economics ‘the dismal science’ because the free-market economists around him were strongly opposed to slavery.

The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

Our oil supply is secure, not because our government threatens to use force against those who would make it insecure, but because the world’s oil suppliers want to make money.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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