#monopoly

Potentially, 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

#dangerous #disarmed #force #government #holds

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota. ↗

— Laura Ingraham

#concerned #dakota #incredible #information #liberals

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

#his #house #invention #inventor #man

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#microsoft #monopoly #operating #operating systems #over

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas. ↗

— Jack Markell

#big #big believer #does #good #good ideas

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

#about #after #craft #does #effective

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#anyone #gets #into #monopoly #only

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#anyone #bit #dig #hughes #monopoly

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#come #competition #customers #end #endure