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

Milton Friedman

Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Argument Opponents Right Understand View Yourself
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
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 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.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
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
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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

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