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"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."

Friedman, Milton

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"The free market is the only mechanism that has ever been discovered for achieving participatory democracy."

Friedman, Milton

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"Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power."

Friedman, Milton

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"I don't believe that we shall ever have good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government. Because we can't take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly or round-about way introduce something they can't stop."

Hayek, Friedrich

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"Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principle known as the Rule of Law."

Hayek, Friedrich

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Capitalism and Freedom

person Friedman, Milton

event 1962

A seminal work arguing that economic freedom is a prerequisite for political freedom, exploring the role of capitalism in a free society

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Rockwell, Norman

American painter and illustrator, famous for depicting American life and values, created the Four Freedoms series

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