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Economic freedom is a highly desirable state — but in bust and boom we must be prepared to face the its consequences.

— Robert Heilbroner The Worldly Philosophers (1953)

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He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.

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It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

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If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

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The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.

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