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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

Milton Friedman

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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Change Character Education Quality Unity
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Business Design Game Oneself Responsibility Rule
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Difference Freedom Independence Word
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself

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