Richard Allen Epstein famous quotes
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One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.
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If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.
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The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.
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Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.
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The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
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America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers is not a mere "technicality." It is the centerpiece of our Constitution. Our freedoms depend upon it in the future, just as they have in the past.
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Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.
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The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.
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At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.
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When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [...] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.
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Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.
-- Richard Allen Epstein
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