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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Milton Friedman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
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 unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Force Liberty People Rule Society
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Civilization Government Greatness Science
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

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