“ The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
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“ The railroad, they said, was a natural monopoly; no private citizen could hope ever to own one; it was thus a kind of monster which, if encouraged, would override all popular rights. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right. ”
- Ted Kulongoski- Copy
- 2.8K
“ No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel. ”
- Michael Kennedy- Copy
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“ Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ”
- Ludwig Mises- Copy
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“ No party has a monopoly on honesty, but with the collapse of old-style GOP machines in places like Indiana and Long Island, New York, it's Democrats who have a greater opportunity to cheat. ”
- John Fund- Copy
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“ We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. ”
- Steve Ballmer- Copy
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“ No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing! ”
- Ralph Gerard- Copy
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“ Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. ”
- Queen Elizabeth- Copy
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“ To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies. ”
- Thomas Griffith- Copy
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“ The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work… ”
- Ernesto- Copy
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“ Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master… Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware. ”
- Mary Elizabeth Lease- Copy
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“ So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular. ”
- Eduard Hanslick- Copy
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“ A vast chasm separates objective, constructive criticism, which emanates from concern for the higher national good, from attempts at slander and defamation. Pluralism does not permit any side to claim a monopoly on truth. No side may claim for itself the sole prerogative to confer the quality of good citizenship… ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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“ I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a latitudinal construction of the constitution, - opposed to slavery agitation and disunion. ”
- Sam Houston- Copy
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