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James M Buchanan Inspirational Quotes (17)

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People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment. This is true in the private sector, the market sector, as well as the public sector.
James M. Buchanan
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The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
James Buchanan
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We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to a level that would be meaningful and efficient. One way to do that is to have a scheme of equalization which essential bribes people to stay in the poorer regions.
James M. Buchanan
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
James Buchanan
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All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.
James Buchanan
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Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.
James M. Buchanan
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Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
James Buchanan
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If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
James Buchanan
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Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.
James M. Buchanan
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America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the be all and end all.
James M. Buchanan
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The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
James Buchanan
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If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.
James M. Buchanan
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Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
James Buchanan
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The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.
James Buchanan
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There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.
James Buchanan
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Liberals have lost the soul. We haven't recognized the necessity of defending our own system at the level of ideas. We have to get people to treat the idea of a free society as a civic religion or a faith. We need to fight for that faith.
James M. Buchanan