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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Equality Freedom Rule Society
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Avoid Power Problem Rule World
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
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
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
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Government Oneself Profit
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
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

People Society Value
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality

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