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John Stossel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 4
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Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.
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The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.
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Patrick Henry didn't say, Give me safety, or give me death.
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'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.
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People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
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What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.
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Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
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All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
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