Restriction Quotes - Page 17

• The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

  Charles Koch

  Government, Political, Competition

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• The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Limits, Problem

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• As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense.

  Conrad Hilton

  Religious, Color, World

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• Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Progress, Quality

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• Only love expands intelligence.  To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

  Humberto Maturana

  Love, Acceptance, Loving Someone

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• I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.

  John Ashcroft

  Stupid, Government, Media

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• I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

  A. R. Rahman

  Want, Language, Music Is

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• Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Mean, Insperational, Faces

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• The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Long Ago, People, Secret

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

  Frank Chodorov

  Political, Liberty, World

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.54, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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