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1 " Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused. "
― Thomas Sowell , Conquests and Cultures: An International History
2 " Epithets like "fascist" and "imperialist stooge" became common currency, along with unbridled expressions of tribal chauvinism. "
3 " Japan, newly emerging on the world scene in the late nineteenth century, sought its science and engineering in Scotland. "
4 " opportunity alone is not sufficient for economic or other accomplishments. "
5 " Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson's mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: "Always settle them cases yourself. "
6 " were now not only affluent themselves but were also able to help family members-hut only so long as they stayed in office.'- "
7 " A Yoruba governor, defeated through vote fraud, was later found by a court to have won in fact by a million votes. "
8 " Foreign workers, attracted to Nigeria from other African countries during boom times, were deeply resented during hard times-and were brutally expelled en masse, largely to Ghana.1N "
9 " The tsetse fly infests more than half the mainland,"' making cattle and draft animals impracticable in the infected regions. "
10 " financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity. "
11 " stability of government and dependability of laws which attracted foreigners. "
12 " Between 50,000 and 100,000 Huguenots fled to Britain from France in the seventeenth century, particularly after revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which had previously guaranteed religious freedom to Protestants.67 "
13 " What the British had earlier than many other peoples was a framework of law and government that facilitated economic transactions. "
14 " Complex and time-consuming international economic transactions, including long-term investments, are particularly dependent on a reliable framework of law, so that changes of government policy or of individuals in power, do not create large uncertainties as to whether commitments will be honored or foreigners treated on an equal plane with the natives involved in commercial and financial transactions. "
15 " British kings could not repudiate national debts-and this in turn made Britain a more attractive country for lenders.71 "
16 " It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government in the economy, first by the Physiocrats in France, who coined the term "laissez-faire," and then by Adam Smith in Britain, who became its leading champion. "
17 " The ending of the slave trade was one of many European policiesimposed upon Africa by the conquerors. "
18 " Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers and of rights limiting the scope of officials. "
19 " The highly moralistic and uncompromising outlook of the Puritans eventually put them and their descendants on a collision course with the institution of slavery and produced. among others, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was called by Abraham Lincoln the little lady who started the Civil War" because of her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. "
20 " There has been so much racism in the full sense of open animosity toward particular groups, combined with dogmatic beliefs that there is a fixed ceiling to their intellectual or other development, that the term is weakened, rather than strengthened, when it is applied sweepingly to people who have neither animosity nor a claim that some invisible ceiling dooms a whole race to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. "
