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Michael Morrison
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“If almost everyone is in favor of feeding the hungry, the politician may find it in his interest to do so. But, under those circumstances, the politician is unnecessary: some kind soul will give the hungry man a meal anyway. If the great majority is against the hungry man, some kind soul among the minority still may feed him—the politician will not.”
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

“In eighteenth-century England a system of professional police and prosecutors, government paid and appointed, was viewed as potentially tyrannical—worse still, French.”
― Legal Systems Very Different from Ours
― Legal Systems Very Different from Ours

“I had always resented sleep as an intrusion on my nocturnal self-pity”
― A Smattering of Ignorance
― A Smattering of Ignorance

“The marketplace is not a battlefield where the person with the most money wins the battle and takes the whole prize;”
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

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