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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.

Milton Friedman

The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Drug Government Protection See True War
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Business Freedom Important Place Profit
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem

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