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Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system — there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.
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Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.... Number one, that it works. Number two, that it's moral. Not always, and not everybody in it is moral, but the system is, I think, a moral one.
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No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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July 14, 1951
(age 73)
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