"The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity"

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Douglass North

#Men Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Rights Quotes

“You can't think of nothing.”
“I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if you're going to do something naughty, make it really enjoyable.”
“If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.”
“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”

Source : J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”
“I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.”
“Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.”
“No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.”
“Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.”

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