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• A government is the most dangerous threat to man

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Bill Of Rights, Dangerous

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.94, Penguin

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• The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

  John Perry Barlow

  Government, Force, Knows

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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• Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

  Winston Churchill

  Mother, Land, Form

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1970). “The people's rights”, Jonathan Cape

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• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Law, Events, Aristocracy

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.9, Beard Books

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• I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

  Elena Kagan

  Wisdom, Truth, School

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Use, Force

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.204, Penguin

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• Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, School, More Money

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• Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Home, Science, Animal

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.41, VM eBooks

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• The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

  Drew Carey

  Brother, Games, Firsts

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Character, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.440

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• Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Hate, Exception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• The field of U.S. cancer care is organized around a medical monopoly that ensures a continuous flow of money to the pharmaceutical companies, medical technology firms, research institutes, and government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and quasi-public organizations such as the American Cancer Society (ACS).

  John Diamond

  Cancer, Technology, Organization

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• I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Real, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.246, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

  Charles Schumer

  Thinking, World, Way

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• The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

  Grayson Perry

  Thinking, Objectivity, Class

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• Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Government, World

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  Uwe Boll

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Men, Liberty, Tiny

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

  Robert Trout

  India, East, Company

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• For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

  Bill Moyers

  Firsts, First Time, Theology

  "On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don)" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2005.

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• I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

  Joseph Hume

  Law, Class, Kingdoms

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• I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly

  Steve Wozniak

  Microsoft, Reason Why, Building

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• I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

  Emanuel Celler

  Rights, Monopoly Power, Growth

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

  David Attenborough

  Government, Television, Britain

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• The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Meaningful, Addresses, Theory

  Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press

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