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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

~Charles De Montesquieu

Topics: Countries Cultivated Fertile Free Well

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Ask Butterflies Free Only

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In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: City Consequences Crime Debt Disappeared Education Enrollment Free Had Laid New New York New York City Off Offered Officers Painful Police Police Officers Poor Services Seven Then Thousand University Until Were Which Yes York 1970S

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Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Biggest Capitalist Defending Depression Free Free Markets Great Great Depression Had Hank Happy His Life Markets Now Pursuing Secretary Since Spent Treasury Warrior Who

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For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

~Charles E. Wilson

Topics: Accumulate Better Capital Choose Countries Doing Educate Free Free Men Had Invent Men More Occupations Opportunities Our Own Religions Select Than Themselves Things Ways Years

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In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

~Charles E. Wilson

Topics: Achieved Am Amazing Anywhere Competition Development Ever Experience Fifty Free Increase Industrial Living Memory Most Most Amazing Must Our People Preserved Seen Sound Standard Sure System Why World Years I Am

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Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

~Charles Eastman

Topics: Any Be True Between Desire Founded Free Friend Instinct Love Man Mark Trials True Woman

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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

~Charles Evans Hughes

Topics: Be Different Different Free Lose Privilege Right

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The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Believe Bondage Church Delivering Did Every Every Man Free God Hands He Himself Instruments Law Make Man Multitude Pleased Therefore Tumultuous Which

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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Antagonism Best Between Classes Country Dependence Feeling Free Hand Healthier Much Mutually Next Other Perhaps Pity Poorer Respecting Richer Than Thing

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